Characteristics of calls to the British Columbia Drug and Poison Information Centre concerning exposure to electronic nicotine delivery systems and demographic characteristics of exposed people, 2012–2017
| Characteristic | No. (%) of people | χ2 | Degrees of freedom | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exposures reported to BC poison centre n = 186 | BC population (20), (21) n = 4 648 060 | ||||
| Demographic characteristics of exposed people | |||||
| Gender | 6.9 | 1 | 0.009 | ||
| Female | 76 (40.9) | 2 370 000 (51.0) | |||
| Male | 108 (58.1) | 2 279 000 (49.0) | |||
| Unknown* | 2 (1.1) | – | |||
| Age, yr | 874.0 | 4 | < 0.001 | ||
| ≤ 4 | 81 (43.5) | 221 000 (4.8) | |||
| 5–14 | 7 (3.8) | 471 000 (10.1) | |||
| 15–19 | 18 (9.7) | 259 000 (5.6) | |||
| 20–24 | 7 (3.8) | 288 000 (6.2) | |||
| ≥ 25 | 31 (16.7) | 3 410 000 (73.4) | |||
| Not recorded* | 42 (22.6) | – | |||
| Temporal and geographic characteristics of calls | |||||
| Year | – | ||||
| 2012 | 7 (3.8) | ||||
| 2013 | 7 (3.8) | ||||
| 2014 | 39 (21.0) | ||||
| 2015 | 47 (25.3) | ||||
| 2016 | 40 (21.5) | ||||
| 2017 | 46 (24.7) | ||||
| Time of day | – | ||||
| 0600–1159 | 31 (16.7) | ||||
| 1200–1759 | 71 (38.2) | ||||
| 1800–2359 | 72 (38.7) | ||||
| 0000–0559 | 12 (6.4) | ||||
| Geographic area | 30.6 | 2 | < 0.001 | ||
| Metropolitan | 77 (41.4) | 2 643 866 (56.4)† | |||
| Mixed urban/rural | 62 (33.3) | 1 485 317 (31.7)† | |||
| Rural/remote | 41 (22.0) | 561 395 (12.0)† | |||
| Not recorded* | 6 (3.2) | – | |||