Table 2:

Descriptive Statistics, 2014–2019 (MTF); 2015–2019 (YRBSS)

	Overall	MTF Treated	Non-Treated	Overall	YRBSS Treated	Non-Treated
Outcomes
Current ENDS Use	0.152	0.142	0.156	0.211	0.198	0.215
Current ENDS Use	[N=126,306]	[N=40,298]	[N=86,008]	[N=538,992]	[N=126,637]	[N=412,355]
Frequent ENDS Use	0.038	0.035	0.039	0.047	0.049	0.047
Frequent ENDS Use	[N=126,306]	[N=40,298]	[N=86,008]	[N=538,992]	[N=126,637]	[N=412,355]
Current Cigarette Smoker	0.066	0.060	0.069	0.081	0.073	0.084
Current Cigarette Smoker	[N=244,360]	[N=78,538]	[N=165,822]	[N=580,788]	[N=135,993]	[N=444,795]
Current Cigarette or Cigar Smoker	0.080	0.073	0.083	0.113	0.093	0.117
Current Cigarette or Cigar Smoker	[N=246,192]	[N=79,112]	[N=167,080]	[N=580,788]	[N=135,993]	[N=444,795]
ENDS Perceived Risk “Greatly Risky”	0.192	0.199	0.189	-	-	-
ENDS Perceived Risk “Greatly Risky”	[N=86,486]	[N=27,804]	[N=58,682]	-	-	-
Current Cigarette Smoker (smoked at least 1/2 pack a day in the past month)	0.012	0.010	0.012	-	-	-
	[N=244,360]	[N=78,538]	[N=165,822]
Current Cigarette Smoker (smoked at least a full pack a day in the past month)	0.006	0.005	0.006	-	-	-
	[N=244,360]	[N=78,538]	[N=165,822]
Frequent Cigarette Smoker	-	-	-	0.022	0.015	0.023
Frequent Cigarette Smoker	-	-	-	[N=580,788]	[N=135,993]	[N=444,795]
ENDS Sources ^*
Retail Source	-	-	-	0.212	0.185	0.227
Retail Source	-	-	-	[N=55,902]	[N=22,260]	[N=33,642]
Internet	-	-	-	0.038	0.042	0.035
Internet	-	-	-	[N=55,902]	[N=22,260]	[N=33,642]
Social Source	-	-	-	0.617	0.628	0.611
Social Source	-	-	-	[N=55,902]	[N=22,260]	[N=33,642]
Other Source	-	-	-	0.133	0.145	0.126
Other Source	-	-	-	[N=55,902]	[N=22,260]	[N=33,642]
Individual Characteristics
Female	0.516	0.514	0.517	0.489	0.489	0.490
Age	16.005	15.997	16.009	16.003	16.014	16.000
Age	(1.985)	(1.994)	(1.981)	(1.426)	(1.424)	(1.426)
White, non-Hispanic	0.550	0.472	0.585	0.543	0.487	0.560
Black/African American, non-Hispanic	0.148	0.129	0.156	0.148	0.146	0.149
Hispanic/Latino	0.237	0.307	0.206	0.240	0.281	0.228
Other Races, non-Hispanic	0.066	0.092	0.054	0.068	0.085	0.063
Grade	10.050	10.083	10.035	10.445	10.481	10.434
Grade	(1.665)	(1.647)	(1.673)	(1.190)	(1.195)	(1.188)
Policy and Economic Covariates
ENDS Tax Rate per ml (2019 $)	0.174	0.562	-	0.166	0.703	-
ENDS Tax Rate per ml (2019 $)	(0.516)	(0.801)	-	(0.456)	(0.709)	-
Cigarette Tax Rate per Pack (2019 $)	2.967	3.137	2.890	2.954	3.260	2.859
Cigarette Tax Rate per Pack (2019 $)	(1.379)	(1.421)	(1.353)	(1.285)	(0.972)	(1.353)
Beer Tax Rate (2019 $)	0.302	0.241	0.330	0.314	0.255	0.332
Beer Tax Rate (2019 $)	(0.277)	(0.161)	(0.312)	(0.286)	(0.175)	(0.310)
Tobacco 21 Percent Population Coverage	0.146	0.300	0.077	0.174	0.462	0.085
ENDS Minimum Legal Sale Age (0/1)	0.873	0.936	0.844	0.924	1.000	0.900
Indoor Smoking Restrictions Percent Population Coverage	0.802	0.896	0.760	0.792	0.928	0.750
Indoor ENDS Restrictions Percent Population Coverage	0.229	0.425	0.141	0.264	0.532	0.181
Recreational Marijuana Laws (0/1)	0.128	0.218	0.087	0.163	0.378	0.096
Medical Marijuana Laws (0/1)	0.526	0.761	0.420	0.579	0.807	0.508
Vertical License Law (0/1)	0.968	0.963	0.970	0.975	0.959	0.980
Unemployment Rate	4.862	5.195	4.713	4.544	4.480	4.563
Unemployment Rate	(1.576)	(1.732)	(1.476)	(0.880)	(0.499)	(0.967)
Poverty Rates	14.200	14.076	14.256	12.697	12.015	12.908
Poverty Rates	(5.219)	(4.764)	(5.411)	(2.513)	(2.693)	(2.416)
N	254,516	81,823	172,693	600,877	139,509	461,368

Notes: Means and standard deviations (in parenthesis) are reported. Since state/county-level information is available in the MTF data, policy/economic controls are at the county level except for beer taxes, marijuana laws, and vertical ID laws in which we only have state-level data. Since county information is not available in the national / state YRBSS, available county-level information is population-weighted to the state level.

ENDS sources are only for the years 2017–2019 and are conditional on an individual being a current ENDS user.