Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-19-2016
Abstract
Objective. This study examined the association between presence of e-cigarette specialty retailers near schools and e-cigarette use among middle and high school students in Orange County (OC), CA.
Methods. The OC subsample of the 2013-2014 California Healthy Kids Survey (N=67,701) was combined with geocoded e-cigarette retailers to determine whether a retailer was present within one-quarter mile of each public school in OC. Multilevel logistic regression models evaluated individual-level and school-level e-cigarette use correlates among middle and high school students.
Results. Among middle school students, the presence of an e-cigarette retailer within one-quarter mile of their school predicted lifetime e-cigarette use (OR = 1.70, 95% CI=1.02, 2.83), controlling for confounders but no effect for current use. No significant effect was found for high school students.
Conclusions. E-cigarette specialty retailers clustered around schools may be an environmental influence on student e-cigarette experimentation.
Recommended Citation
Bostean, G., Crespi, C.M., Vorapharuek, P., & McCarthy, W.J. (2016). E-cigarette use among students and e-cigarette specialty retailer presence near schools. Health & Place, 42, 129-136. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.09.012
Peer Reviewed
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Copyright
Elsevier
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health & Place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Health & Place, volume 42, in 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.09.012
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