Adjusted Associations Between Reporting No Interest Among People Their Age in Trying Any of the Products Shown and Packaging Condition, ASH Youth Survey 2021 (N = 2469)
REGRESSION, INTERACTIONS, ASH
Abbreviations: AOR, adjusted odds ratio; ASH, Action on Smoking and Health; NA, not applicable.Analyses were adjusted for sex, age group, socioeconomic status, vaping status, and smoking status. All data are unweighted.Reference category is selecting any of the products or “Don’t know.”ABC1 indicates high socioeconomic status: intermediate and higher managerial, administrative, supervisory, clerical, and junior managerial professional occupations. C2DE indicates low socioeconomic status: skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled manual occupations; unemployed; and lowest-grade occupations.Includes respondents who had never heard of e-cigarettes.Estimates likely unreliable due to low sample sizes.A significantly smaller percentage of youths aged 16 to 18 years reported no interest in trying any of the products compared with youths aged 11 to 15 years. A significantly smaller percentage of youths who currently vaped or had ever vaped reported no interest in trying any of the products compared with youths who had never vaped. The percentage reporting no interest in trying any of the products was higher among youths who had never smoked than those who had ever or were currently smoking; however, these comparisons were not significant (Because a substantial proportion of youths reported that they did not know which of the displayed vaping products people their age would be interested in trying, a sensitivity analysis was conducted. A multinomial regression model was run in which “Don’t know” was treated as a separate category in the outcome variable. When “Don’t know” was a separate category, youths were more likely to report no interest among people their age in trying products in either green (292 of 815 [35.8%]) or white (264 of 826 [32.0%]) standardized packs compared with branded packs (238 of 828 [28.7%]) (eTable 5 in Interactions were explored between vaping status and packaging condition (eFigure 1 and eTable 6 in Interactions were also explored between smoking status and packaging condition (eFigure 2 and eTable 6 in 