Table 4. Excessive medical spending attributable to active smoking and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) by smoking status (yuan, per capita per year).
Smoking status | National | Urban | Rural |
Active smoking | |||
NS (reference category) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Low | 3.1 | 4.1 | 2.7 |
Medium | 3.2 | 4.0 | 2.9 |
High | 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.0 |
1 quit | 39.2 | 54.5 | 32.9 |
2+ quit | 64.0 | 84.9 | 51.6 |
Mixed | 34.9 | 45.1 | 30.6 |
ETS | |||
Low | 13.5 | 14.1 | 13.3 |
Medium | 13.8 | 14.7 | 13.6 |
High | 11.9 | 12.2 | 11.8 |
NS, household of never-smokers; Low, low tobacco consumption (0–25% of distribution of tobacco consumption); Medium (25–75%) and high tobacco consumption (75–100%).