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. 2024 Apr 27;25:185. doi: 10.1186/s12931-024-02818-x

Table 6.

Associations between filtered cigar and cigarette use status and lifetime asthma diagnosis and uncontrolled asthma (Wave 2 – Wave 5 population averaged), PATH Study 2014–2019

Lifetime asthma diagnosis
Obs = 42,195 a
Uncontrolled asthma b (ACT ≤ 19)
Obs = 5,656 a
Tobacco use status Obs

Weighted %

(95% CI)

Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI) Tobacco use status Obs

Weighted %

(95% CI)

Unadjusted OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR

(95% CI)

Never smokers of cigarettes or filtered cigars

Obs = 20,319

3,145 11.5 (10.5, 12.6) Ref Ref

Never smokers of cigarettes or filtered cigars

Obs = 2,924

306 12.5 (10.0, 15.5) Ref Ref

Current established filtered cigar smokers

Obs = 315

70 22.0 (15.2, 30.7) 1.01 (0.78, 1.30) 1.35 (1.10, 1.66)

Current established filtered cigar smokers

Obs = 62

16 24.6 (14.8, 38.0) 2.24 (0.90, 5.57) 3.80 (0.86, 16.77)

Current established cigarette smokers

Obs = 20,904

2,843 11.9 (11.0, 12.8) 1.02 (0.90, 1.17) 1.19 (1.04, 1.36)

Current established cigarette smokers

Obs = 2,573

594 23.4 (20.3, 26.7) 2.07 (1.45, 2.94) 1.89 (1.19, 3.01)

Current established dual smokers of filtered cigars and cigarettes

Obs = 657

105 14.1 (10.6, 18.7) 1.09 (0.94, 1.26) 1.27 (1.06, 1.52)

Current established dual smokers of filtered cigars and cigarettes

Obs = 97

35 37.7 (25.4, 51.8) 3.85 (2.07, 7.18) 5.13 (1.75, 15.02)

OR odds ratio, Obs observations

Bolded estimates are statistically significant (p < 0.05)

Ns are unweighted; percentages and ORs are weighted using the Wave 5 all-waves weights for the Wave 1 Cohort

Excludes those with COPD and other non-asthma respiratory diseases

Adjusted for age (18–39 vs. 40 +), sex, race/ethnicity, education, BMI, cigarette pack years, duration of cigar use, secondhand smoke exposure, past month marijuana use, and current established use of at least one of: ENDS, pipe, hookah, smokeless tobacco, snus. Also adjusted for current established use of traditional cigars and cigarillos. Uncontrolled asthma model also adjusted for use of asthma medications

aOverall Obs represents unadjusted model and does not take into account missingness on covariates. 9,460 observations were missing on covariates for the ever asthma adjusted model and 1,686 for the uncontrolled asthma adjusted model

bAmong adults with an asthma diagnosis