ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
A Comparison of E-Cigarette Use Patterns and Smoking Cessation Behavior among Vapers by Primary Place of Purchase.
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- Where Do E-cigarette Users Buy Their E-cigarette Products? Results From a Nationally Representative Sample of Adult E-cigarette Users in the United States.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Features of disposable e-cigarettes and their association with pricing and consumer preference: Evidence from web data of US online stores.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- E-cigarette support for smoking cessation: Identifying the effectiveness of intervention components in an on-line randomized optimization experiment.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- Changes in the Point-of-Sale Among Vape Shops in Six U.S. Metropolitan Areas Over Time, 2018-2021.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- Underage E-Cigarette Purchasing and Vaping Progression Among Young Adults.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- The Reshaping of the E-Cigarette Retail Environment: Its Evolution and Public Health Concerns.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Price, convenience, the buying experience, and other motivations for purchasing tobacco and e-cigarettes online.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Young Adult Vaping, Substance Vaped, and Purchase Location Across Five Categories of Vaping Devices.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Who Purchases Tobacco Online? Findings from Waves 1 and 4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.Tobacco regulatory science · 2021Article
- How are adolescents getting their vaping products? Findings from the international tobacco control (ITC) youth tobacco and vaping survey.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundE-cigarettes are purchased through multiple channels, including general retail, online, and specialty smoke and vape shops. We examine how e-cigarette users' primary purchase place relates to e-cigarette use and smoking cessation behaviors.
methodsProbability-based samples of the U.S. population who were current e-cigarette users were surveyed in 2014 (N = 879) and 2016 (N = 743), with responses combined for most analyses. E-cigarette use and smoking cessation behaviors were compared across users' primary purchase place.
resultsHigher percentages of vape shop (59.1%) and internet (42.9%) customers were current daily users of e-cigarettes compared to retail (19.7%) and smoke shop (23.2%) customers (
conclusionsE-cigarette customers differed in significant ways by channels of purchase, most notably in their smoking cessation behaviors. Previous population studies have relied mostly on retail channel data, which accounted for less than 30% of all products sold by 2016. Future studies of e-cigarette use should consider a broader set of channels.
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