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. 2008 Dec 24;8:387. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-387

Table 5.

Descriptive statistics for cigarette smoking and ETS exposure (home and workplace), by age-decadea,b

Age (years) Cigarette duration (yrs.)c Cigarette pack-yearsd Cigarette cessation (yrs.)e Home ETS yearsf Work ETS yearsg
Mean St. dev. Mean St. dev. Mean St. dev. Mean St. dev. Mean St. dev.
20 – 29 2.80 3.36 0.61 0.92 4.00 - 2.50 3.00 1.00 2.24
30 – 39 7.62 8.95 4.18 5.75 4.33 4.16 11.14 9.87 2.29 3.73
40 – 49 11.30 13.75 8.36 13.36 14.29 11.18 13.93 11.39 7.16 9.76
50 – 59 17.05 16.06 18.09 22.33 16.85 12.05 13.78 13.99 8.11 10.84
60 – 69 20.64 19.76 20.68 27.45 23.20 13.34 17.00 16.43 12.88 14.53
70 – 79 19.72 20.45 21.08 27.74 28.61 15.50 19.00 16.30 10.28 14.39
≥ 80 12.88 18.13 11.69 25.56 36.48 16.16 19.03 21.17 9.26 15.49

Total 17.44 18.67 17.49 25.33 24.66 15.39 16.45 16.17 9.65 13.40

a Spearman's correlation coefficients reported for both variables as continuous.

b Cigarette duration and pack-years reported for full sample (N = 672); Cigarette cessation reported for ex-smokers only (N = 305); ETS statistics reported for never-smokers only (N = 263).

c F = 5.163, p < 0.0001; Spearman's ρ = 0.048, p = 0.215

d F = 4.668, p < 0.0001; Spearman's ρ = 0.022, p = 0.564

e F = 10.822, p < 0.0001; Spearman's ρ = 0.388, p < 0.0001

f F = 1.354, p = 0.234; Spearman's ρ = 0.102, p = 0.121

g F = 1.699, p = 0.122; Spearman's ρ = 0.029, p = 0.636