U.S. young adults’ awareness of the Master Settlement Agreement and cigarette industry practices and their associations with electronic cigarette industry and health risk perceptions

Table 3 Associations with electronic cigarette industry perceptions and electronic cigarette health risk perceptions (N = 1,329)

	Outcome variables
Independent variables	Electronic cigarette industry perceptions		Electronic cigarette health risk perceptions
Independent variables	B	95% CI	B	95% CI
Awareness of the Master Settlement Agreement
Heard, know a lot	-0.10	-0.19,-0.02	0.20	0.10,0.30
Heard, don’t know	0.09	0.01,0.18	-0.12	-0.22,-0.02
Not heard of	REF	–	REF	–
Awareness of cigarette industry practices	-0.06	-0.07,-0.05	0.04	0.03,0.06
Electronic cigarette industry perceptions	–	–	-0.54	-0.60,-0.48

Multivariable linear regression models adjusted for age, race and ethnicity, gender, educational attainment, annual household income, and sexual orientation; B indicates unstandardized beta coefficient; 95% CI indicates 95% confidence interval; bolded values indicate statistical significance p < 0.05. Estimates for awareness of the Master Settlement Agreement and awareness of cigarette industry practices were not adjusted for electronic cigarette industry perceptions, while estimate for electronic cigarette industry perceptions was adjusted for awareness of the Master Settlement Agreement and awareness of cigarette industry practices

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