Table 2.
Weighted Smoking Patterns Among 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) | |
| Lifetime cigar-type smoked | ||||||
| <1–10 cigars | 7.9 (5.2–11.8) | 7.7 (4.2–13.6) | 7.7 (4.0–14.2)† | 10.5 (7.3–14.7) | 17.4 (11.6–25.3) | N/A |
| 11–50 cigars | 18.3 (13.1–25.0) | 17.2 (12.9–22.4) | 18.6 (7.4–39.7)† | 16.0 (12.3–20.6) | 12.2 (8.0–18.1) | N/A |
| 51 or more cigars | 73.9 (66.5–80.1) | 75.1 (67.3–81.6) | 73.7 (56.1–86.0) | 73.5 (68.0–78.5) | 70.4 (61.9–77.7) | N/A |
| Now smoking products every day | 9.8 (6.2–15.3) | 6.9 (3.3–13.7)† | 17.0 (8.6–30.9)† | 27.6 (22.5–33.5) | 36.9 (29.1–45.5) | 78.5 (77.2–79.7) |
| Days smoked product in the past 30 days (median, IQR) | 3.0 (1.0–10.0) | 3.0 (1.0–8.0) | 4.0 (1.0–20.0) | 10.0 (3.0–30.0) | 15.0 (4.0–30.0) | 30.0 (30.0–30.0 |
| Number of products smoked/day (median, IQR)d | 0.1 (0.03–0.4) | 0.1 (0.03 to 0.3) | 0.2 (0.03–0.8) | 0.5 (0.1–2.0) | 1.3 (0.2–7.0) | 10.0 (5.0–20.0) |
| Age (years) at first regular use of the product (median, IQR) | 30.0 (23.0–47.0) | 30.0 (23.0–48.0) | 28.0 (23.0–45.0) | 25.0 (18.0–37.0) | 30.0 (22.0–44.0) | 17.0 (15.0–20.0) |
| Duration (years) since first regular use of the product (median, IQR) | 20.0 (8.0–32.0) | 21.0 (8.2–31.0) | 15.5 (7.0–32.5) | 11.5 (6.8–23.0) | 7.0 (4.9–14.5) | 33.3 (21.2–45.0) |
| Currently use ≥1 other cigar type(s) | 27.3 (22.3–33.0) | 18.1 (12.9–24.8) | 46.6 (33.4–60.3) | 36.7 (31.1–42.7) | 45.1 (36.6–53.8) | 7.0 (6.2–7.8) |
| Currently use ≥1 noncigar, noncigarette product(s) | 31.4 (24.6–39.2) | 28.8 (22.0–36.8) | 39.2 (26.4–53.7) | 29.4 (24.7–34.5) | 35.5 (27.2–44.8) | 15.8 (14.8–16.9) |
| Cigarette smoking statuse | ||||||
| Currently established smoker | 33.3 (27.1–40.2) | 21.2 (15.7–27.9) | 56.7 (41.1–71.0) | 54.3 (49.0–59.5) | 65.3 (56.1–73.5) | N/A |
| Former established smoker | 36.9 (30.7–43.5) | 45.2 (36.8–54.0) | 22.8 (14.7–33.7) | 25.4 (21.3–30.0) | 21.8 (16.0–29.0) | N/A |
| Never smoker | 29.8 (22.5–38.3) | 33.6 (25.6–42.6) | 20.5 (8.3–42.3)† | 20.3 (16.4–24.9) | 12.9 (7.6–20.9) | N/A |
W = weighted; CI = confidence interval; IQR = interquartile range; 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 status 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.
dResponse of “less than 1 each day” was recorded as 0.5 per day. Any value over the 99th percentile was Winsorized to that value. Traditional cigars (99th percentile = 6, n changes = 6); Cigarillos (99th percentile = 10, n changes = 4); Filtered cigars (99th percentile = 30, n changes = 1); Cigarettes (99th percentile = 40, n changes = 34).
eCurrent established cigarette smokers smoked at least 100 in their lifetime and now smoke cigarettes every day or some days. Former established cigarette smokers had to have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and now smoke cigarettes not at all; never cigarette smokers had to smoke less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.
†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%.