title: E-cigarette specialty retailers: Data to assess the association between retail environment and student e-cigarette use.
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 [1]). 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Environmental Science & Policy Program, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA.
authors.forename: Georgiana
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bostean
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, 650 Charles E. Young Dr. South, 51-254 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA.
authors.forename: Catherine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Crespi
authors.affiliation: Environmental Management, University of San Francisco, Harney Science Center, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080, USA.
authors.forename: Patsornkarn
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vorapharuek
authors.affiliation: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Center for Cancer Prevention & Control Research, A2-125 CHS, 650 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles 90095-6900, USA.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: McCarthy
keywords: Electronic cigarettes; Environment; Policy; Proximity; Retailers