Exposure to e-cigarette advertising, attitudes, and use susceptibility in adolescents who had never used e-cigarettes or cigarettes

Table 1 Demographic characteristics and distributions of EC related exposure, attitudes and susceptibility

	N^a	(%)^b
Sex (male)	3821	50.8
Age, years (SD)^c	14.8 (1.7)	14.9 (1.9)
Grade
Secondary 1	1159	17.6
Secondary 2	1311	16.7
Secondary 3	1514	16.3
Secondary 4	1440	16.8
Secondary 5	1412	17.4
Secondary 6	246	15.2
Perceived family affluence
Relatively poor	476	6.8
Poor to average	1753	25.8
Average	4068	56.9
Average to rich	659	9.0
Relatively rich	107	1.5
Parental cigarette/EC use	2534	36.2
Number of types of EC advertising exposure
0	4888	71.2
1	1462	21.5
≥ 2	528	7.3
EC use harms health
Definitely not	295	3.8
Probably not	337	4.8
Probably will	1631	22.4
Definitely will	4811	69.1
Attitude towards EC use
Very negative	3318	47.8
Negative	2027	28.5
Neutral	1576	21.6
Positive	95	1.4
Very positive	54	0.7
The tobacco industry is respectable
Definitely not	235	2.9
Probably not	1674	22.7
Probably yes	2677	38.3
Definitely yes	2475	36.1
Tobacco companies make youth smoke
Definitely not	920	13.1
Probably not	2554	36.9
Probably yes	2457	34.7
Definitely yes	1135	15.3
Being susceptible to EC use	496	6.9

^aNumbers unless otherwise stated
^bProportions unless otherwise stated. All proportions were weighted by age, sex, and grade distributions of the target population provided by the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government
^cMean age and standard deviation; unweighted under the column “N” and weighted under the column “%”

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