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Table 1 Percentages of participants reporting various images of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes by cigarette smoker status

From: Affect, risk perception, and the use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes: a population study of U.S. adults

 

Cigarette images

E-cigarette images

% who mentioned

Total

(n = 5389)

Current smoker

(n = 1184)

Former smoker

(n = 1520)

Never smoker

(n = 2683)

Total

Current smoker

Former smoker

Never smoker

Synonym

17.5

32.8

16.4

14.2

19.6

24.5

18.7

18.8

Disgust

23.0

6.8

21.7

27.8

13.5

6.0

13.9

15.2

Risky

35.4

13.7

34.6

41.4

11.0

3.5

10.9

12.9

Addiction

4.9

9.5

5.5

3.4

3.9

2.3

4.3

4.0

Relaxing/ Satisfaction

2.6

12.6

2.1

0.3

1.2

2.3

0.8

1.2

Safer than cigarettes

–

–

–

–

5.3

6.2

4.7

5.3

Same/worse than cigarette

–

–

–

–

3.8

2.4

3.2

4.4

Other

18.3

26.1

20.8

15.1

45.6

54.7

47.2

42.5