E-cigarette addiction and harm perception: Does initiation flavor choice matter?

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Linear regression analyses predicting e-cigarette addiction and harm perception from e-cigarette flavor initiation type (with and without adjustment for age, age when first started smoking cigarettes regularly, sex, race and annual household income).

Variable	B [95% CI]^b	p-value^b	B [95% CI]^c	p-value^c
E-cigarette addiction
Traditional flavor type initiation^a	-0.110 [-0.182, 0.125]	0.718	-0.163 [-1.286, 0.398]	0.294
Age^a			0.281 [-0.371, 1.766]	0.060
Age when first started smoking cigarettes regularly			-0.388 [-1.123, -0.153]	0.011
Sex^a			-0.163 [-0.949, 0.261]	0.258
Race^a			-0.085 [-0.908, 0.498]	0.559
Annual household income			0.079 [-0.215, 0.369]	0.599
E-cigarette harm perception
Traditional flavor type initiation^a	0.077 [0.040, 0.338]	0.013	0.082 [-0.685, 1.169]	0.601
Age^a			0.251 [-0.153, 1.832]	0.095
Age when first started smoking cigarettes regularly			-0.022 [-0.572, 0.495]	0.884
Sex^a			0.203 [-0.200, 1.132]	0.166
Race^a			0.100 [-0.511, 1.037]	0.496
Annual household income			-0.207 [-0.540, 0.104]	0.179

^aReference is non-traditional flavor type initiation, age 12 to 14 years old, male and Non-White.
^bWithout adjustment.
^cWith adjustment.

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