Table 1.
Smoking behavior among California’s diverse adult population: CHIS 2001 data
| Smoking status (% ±
SD)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic/gender group | N | Never | Former | Current | # Cigarettes per day, mean ± SD (N) |
| Non-Hispanic White/male | 15,193 | 46.6 ± 0.9 | 34.0 ± 0.9 | 19.4 ± 0.9 | 15.0 ± 0.6 (2800) |
| Non-Hispanic White/female | 21,536 | 54.9 ± 0.9 | 28.2 ± 0.8 | 16.9 ± 0.8 | 12.3 ± 0.4 (3695) |
| Hispanic/male | 3983 | 57.7 ± 1.9 | 22.8 ± 1.6 | 19.5 ± 1.6 | 7.2 ± 0.9 (779) |
| Hispanic/female | 5475 | 81.4 ± 1.4 | 10.8 ± 1.1 | 7.8 ± 0.9 | 5.3 ± 0.7 (464) |
| African-American/male | 1011 | 53.0 ± 3.9 | 25.0 ± 3.2 | 22.0 ± 3.3 | 10.6 ± 1.1 (223) |
| African-American/female | 1753 | 62.2 ± 2.9 | 18.2 ± 1.8 | 19.6 ± 2.6 | 8.9 ± 0.8 (346) |
| American Indians, Alaska Natives/male | 351 | 41.7 ± 7.9 | 29.1 ± 6.4 | 29.2 ± 7.3 | 14.9 ± 3.0 (126) |
| American Indians, Alaska Natives/female | 430 | 47.8 ± 6.6 | 20.7 ± 5.2 | 31.5 ± 5.9 | 10.4 ± 1.3 (139) |
| Pacific Islander/male | 101 | 54.2 ± 15.3 | 13.5 ± 8.5 | 32.3 ± 13.0 | 10.3 ± 4.5 (28) |
| Pacific Islander/female | 118 | 62.3 ± 13.4 | 16.3 ± 9.7 | 21.4 ± 12.3 | 6.5 ± 2.6 (26) |
| Asian/maleb | 1717 | 55.2 ± 3.2 | 23.4 ± 2.4 | 21.4 ± 2.3 | 10.0 ± 1.2 (353) |
| Asian/femaleb | 2239 | 85.3 ± 2.0 | 6.9 ± 1.1 | 7.8 ± 1.6 | 7.8 ± 1.1 (167) |
| Asian Chinese/male | 505 | 61.3 ± 5.2 | 24.4 ± 4.9 | 14.3 ± 3.2 | 9.6 ± 3.3 (74) |
| Asian Chinese/female | 758 | 89.2 ± 2.8 | 4.6 ± 1.6 | 6.2 ± 2.3 | 7.5 ± 2.2 (41) |
| Asian Filipino/male | 351 | 52.8 ± 7.4 | 23.0 ± 4.4 | 24.2 ± 6.5 | 9.1 ± 2.1 (92) |
| Asian Filipino/female | 568 | 78.2 ± 3.9 | 11.2 ± 3.2 | 10.6 ± 2.7 | 7.9 ± 1.8 (65) |
a
All percentages and number of cigarettes per day are weighted to account for different selection probabilities.
b
All Asian subgroups combined, including Chinese and Filipino.