Table 1.
Weighted Demographic Characteristics of Adult Current Establisheda Premium and Nonpremium Traditional Cigar, Cigarillo, Filtered Cigar, and Cigarette Smokers, PATH Study Wave 6, 2021
| Traditional cigars overallb (n = 408) |
Premium traditional cigarsc (n = 267) |
Nonpremium traditional cigars (n = 125) |
Cigarillos (n = 503) |
Filtered cigars (n = 240) |
Cigarettes (n = 5624) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W% (95% CI) | W% (95% CI) | W% (95% CI) | W% (95% CI) | W% (95% CI) | W% (95% CI) | |
| Overall adult prevalence | 1.3 (1.1–1.5) | 0.9 (0.7–1.0) | 0.4 (0.3–0.5) | 1.1 (1.0–1.2) | 0.6 (0.5–0.7) | 14.4 (13.9–14.9) |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 6.2 (4.3–8.7) | 2.3 (1.2–4.4)† | 11.6 (7.3–17.9) | 28.4 (23.9–33.4) | 35.2 (27.4–43.8) | 46.1 (44.4–47.8) |
| Male | 93.8 (91.3–95.7) | 97.7 (95.6–98.8) | 88.4 (82.1–92.7) | 71.6 (66.6–76.1) | 64.8 (56.2–72.6) | 53.9 (52.2–55.6) |
| Age group (years) | ||||||
| 18–24 | 3.4 (2.1–5.5) | 2.7 (1.6–4.4) | 3.4 (1.2–9.1)† | 10.5 (8.1–13.3) | 6.3 (3.6–10.8) | 4.9 (4.4–5.5) |
| 25–34 | 35.1 (28.8–42.0) | 34.2 (27.2–41.9) | 38.7 (25.8–53.4) | 44.3 (38.6–50.2) | 29.3 (22.4–37.3) | 31.8 (30.4–33.3) |
| 35–54 | 25.9 (20.4–32.2) | 27.4 (20.6–35.4) | 22.0 (12.9–35.1) | 26.6 (21.6–32.2) | 34.7 (26.8–43.6) | 29.1(27.3–30.9) |
| ≥55 | 35.6 (29.8–41.8) | 35.8 (28.4–43.9) | 35.9 (25.7–47.5) | 18.7 (14.5–23.8) | 29.7 (22.6–38.0) | 34.2 (32.5–35.9) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 67.9 (60.4–74.5) | 72.5 (64.5–79.3) | 59.8 (43.2–74.5) | 42.4 (37.5–47.4) | 54.8 (46.1–63.3) | 67.7 (66.2–69.3) |
| Black/AA, non-Hispanic | 9.3 (6.9–12.5) | 6.8 (4.1–11.0) | 14.2 (8.6–22.5) | 35.3 (31.1–39.6) | 23.6 (17.5–30.9) | 14.3 (13.3–15.3) |
| Other or multi-race, non-Hispanic | 5.6 (3.0–10.2)† | 6.1 (3.0–12.2)† | 3.7 (1.2–10.9)† | 7.5 (5.1–10.9) | 5.4 (3.2–8.9) | 5.1 (4.5–5.8) |
| Hispanic | 17.3 (11.1–25.8) | 14.7 (9.1–22.7) | 22.3 (9.2–44.8)† | 14.8 (11.3–19.2) | 16.2 (10.9–23.6) | 12.9 (12.0–13.9) |
| Education | ||||||
| Less than a high school diploma | 8.9 (5.8–13.5) | 6.7 (3.3–13.1)† | 14.0 (8.7–22.0) | 13.1 (9.4–18.1) | 20.3 (14.3–28.1) | 15.5 (14.3–16.7) |
| GED | 4.2 (2.5–7.2) | 1.7 (0.7–4.4)† | 10.1 (5.3–18.3)† | 8.6 (5.4–13.2) | 9.8 (6.1–15.5) | 10.7 (9.7–11.7) |
| High school diploma | 22.8 (16.5–30.8) | 19.5 (13.2–27.9) | 30.0 (19.4–43.3) | 29.2 (23.8–35.4) | 35.6 (27.0–45.3) | 30.3 (28.7–32.0) |
| Some college/associate’s degree | 28.0 (23.1–33.5) | 28.8 (22.4–36.1) | 24.2 (16.1–34.8) | 36.4 (31.3–41.8) | 23.9 (18.5–30.4) | 32.8 (31.2–34.3) |
| Completed college or more | 36.0 (29.3–43.3) | 43.3 (35.5–51.4) | 21.6 (9.8–41.2)† | 12.7 (9.2–17.2) | 10.4 (6.8–15.4) | 10.8 (9.9–11.8) |
| Income | ||||||
| <$25 000 | 19.7 (13.4–27.9) | 11.9 (6.7–20.3) | 37.9 (24.8–52.9) | 41.6 (36.3–47.1) | 58.4 (50.1–66.3) | 39.1 (37.3–40.8) |
| $25 000–$49 999 | 17.1 (13.3–21.9) | 14.5 (10.3–20.1) | 23.9 (15.7–34.6) | 25.8 (21.3–30.9) | 25.9 (19.7–33.3) | 26.7 (25.4–28.0) |
| $50 000–$74 999 | 20.4 (14.1–28.4) | 21.1 (15.0–28.8) | 19.3 (7.3–41.9)† | 14.9 (11.3–19.5) | 5.5 (3.0–10.1)† | 14.6 (13.4–15.7) |
| $≥75 000 | 42.8 (35.6–50.4) | 52.5 (44.5–60.4) | 18.9 (11.2–30.1) | 17.7 (13.3–23.1) | 10.1 (6.0–16.6) | 19.7 (18.0–21.4) |
W = weighted; CI = confidence interval; AA = African American; GED = General Education Development; PATH = Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health.
aCurrent established use of cigarettes is defined as lifetime use of ≥100 cigarettes and currently smoking every day or some days. For cigars, current established use is defined as fairly regular use and currently used every day or some days.
bSixteen traditional cigar users were not able to be classified as premium versus nonpremium users because of missing brand and cigar price per stick data.
cPremium brand excludes ACID, which had been considered as a premium brand by Corey et al. 2018. Please see Supplementary Materials for premium cigar definition, and tables that show these analyses with ACID considered as a premium brand.
†Estimate should be interpreted with caution because it has low statistical precision. It is based on a denominator sample size of less than 50, or the coefficient of variation of the estimate or its complement is larger than 30%.