E-cigarette environmental and fire/life safety risks in schools reported by secondary school teachers

BMC Public Health

Table 3 School response and events

Question	Response	n	%	North New Jersey Region (n)	South New Jersey Region (n)
Have smoke alarms been newly inserted in your school’s bathrooms with the intent of better detecting e-cigarette usage on school property?	Yes	7	7	6	0
	No	38	36	25	13
	Unsure/ I don’t know	59	57	44	14
Have smoke alarms been newly inserted in your gym locker rooms with the intent of better detecting e-cigarette usage on school property?^a	Yes	2	2	2	0
	No	30	30	19	11
	Unsure / I don’t know	68	68	51	16
Has your school seen an increase in smoke alarm activations by the thick vapor that emanates from e-cigarettes?^b	Yes	2	2	2	0
	No	59	58	39	18
	Unsure / I don’t know	41	40	32	9
To your knowledge have any smoke alarms been tampered with to allow for e-cigarette usage without alarm activation?^b	Yes	3	3	2	1
	No	40	39	28	10
	Unsure / I don’t know	59	58	43	16
To your knowledge have any e-cigarette fires or explosions occurred on your school’s property?^b	Yes	0	0	0	0
	No	70	69	47	21
	Unsure / I don’t know	32	31	26	6
Do you know of any students in your school who have sustained injuries due to an e-cigarette fire or explosion?^b	Yes	1	1	0	1
	No	65	64	45	18
	Unsure / I don’t know	36	35	28	8

^aOverall, there were 100/104 participants who responded, with two missing, and two who explained in writing their schools do not have gym locker rooms. Also, at a region level there were 99 participants total because this accounted for the one participant with three listed New Jersey counties and excluded two missing, and two who explained in writing their schools do not have gym locker rooms
^bOverall, there were 102/104 participants who responded, with two missing, and at region level there were 100 participants total because this accounted for the one participant with three listed New Jersey counties and excluded one missing data

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