Table 3.

Multivariate survival analysis of the reported age of established daily smoking (adjusted Cox proportional hazard ratios and their 95% confidence intervals for socio-demographic and tobacco control-related characteristics)

	Men	Women
	N = 279	N = 182
Age	0,95 (0,91–0,98)	0,92 (0,87–0,97)
Education (primary versus university)	2,60 (1,61–4,20)
Smaller versus larger settlements		0,77 (0,63–0,95)
Exposure to tobacco smoke rare versus frequent	0,67 (0,49–0,92)
Household smoking restrictions (Smoke outdoors versus no restrictions)	0,64 (0,49–0,84)	0,60 (0,39–0,93)
Tobacco-related knowledge	0,76 (0,57–1,02)	0,83 (0,72–0,95)
Receive information on tobacco smoking from colleagues and friends		1,83 (1,13–2,95)