E-cigarette Specialty Retailers: Data to Assess the Association Between Retail Environment and Student E-cigarette Use

Authors

Georgiana Bostean, Chapman UniversityFollow
Catherine M. Crespi, University of California - Los Angeles
Patsornkarn Vorapharuek, University of San Francisco
William J. McCarthy, University of California - Los Angeles

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-7-2017

Abstract

The retail environment is a major social determinant of health, yet little is known about the e-cigarette specialty retailer environment. The e-cigarette specialty retail environment may be associated with e-cigarette use by middle and high school students, an issue that was addressed in a recent article entitled, “E-cigarette use among students and e-cigarette specialty retailer presence near schools,” by Bostean and colleagues (G. Bostean, C.M. Crespi, P. Vorapharuek, W.J. McCarthy, 2016). We present data relating to e-cigarette specialty retailers in Orange County, California. We describe the data collection method (including the search methodology to identify e-cigarette specialty retailers), present descriptive retailer data including school proximity, and provide data from multi-level regressions predicting individual-level student use of e-cigarettes based on presence of an e-cigarette specialty retailer in proximity to schools.

Comments

This article was originally published in Data in Brief, volume 11, in 2017. DOI:10.1016/j.dib.2016.12.022

Recommended Citation

Bostean, G., Crespi, C. M., Vorapharuek, P., & McCarthy, W. J. (2017). E-cigarette specialty retailers: Data to assess the association between retail environment and student e-cigarette use. Data in Brief, 11, 32–38. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2016.12.022

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