Table 1.
Weighted sample characteristics by roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco use among Canadian smokers, 2002
| Roll-your-own (RYO) Tobacco Use | ||||||
| All of the time | Most of the time | Sometimes | Never | Chi-Squar | ||
| % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | |||
| Smoking status | Daily smoker | 95.9 (433,969) | 94.2 (154,724) | 83.6 (257,901) | 79.9 (3,494,082) | χ2 = 89.4, |
| Occasional smoker | 4.1 (18,408) | 5.8 (9,579) | 16.4 (50,684) | 20.1 (877,067) | df = 3, p < .001 | |
| Sex | Male | 53.2 (240,638) | 52.5 (86,208) | 58.0 (178,883) | 52.6 (2,299,092) | χ2 = 3.4, |
| Female | 46.8 (211,739) | 47.5 (78,095) | 42.0 (129,702) | 47.4 (2,072,057) | df = 3, p = .336 | |
| Age (in years) | 15–24 | 9.2 (41,771) | 19.5 (32,082) | 36.2 (111,788) | 20.6 (901,027) | χ2 = 138.4, |
| 25–34 | 12.7 (57,406) | 20.4 (33,497) | 13.1 (40,309) | 23.3 (1,016,317) | df = 9, p < .00 | |
| 35–44 | 32.7 (147,741) | 24.0 (39,458) | 17.5 (53,955) | 23.2 (1,014,262) | ||
| 45+ | 45.4 (205,459) | 36.1 (59,266) | 33.2 (102,533) | 32.9 (1,439,543) | ||
| Marital status | Common law | 14.6 (65,122) | 26.5 (43,182) | 4.8 (14,216) | 11.9 (514,612) | χ2 = 108.8, |
| Married | 42.0 (187,460) | 41.1 (67,132) | 32.2 (95,747) | 40.7 (1,758,185) | df = 15, p < .00 | |
| Widowed | 2.4 (10,511) | 2.8 (4,588) | 5.3 (15,758) | 3.7 (159,918) | ||
| Divorced | 10.6 (47,398) | 5.7 (9,362) | 7.0 (20,735) | 6.0 (257,692) | ||
| Separated | 4.5 (19,968) | 1.9 (3,109) | 2.4 (7,365) | 2.3 (101,456) | ||
| Single | 25.9 (115,610) | 22.0 (35,859) | 48.3 (143,604) | 35.4 (1,528,765) | ||
| Time to first cigarette after waking up | Within 5 minutes | 34.2 (149,146) | 27.0 (41,920) | 35.3 (95,899) | 22.1 (795,446) | χ2 = 133.3, |
| 6–30 minutes | 45.1 (197,095) | 30.5 (47,328) | 27.3 (74,242) | 31.6 (1,135,698) | df = 9, p < .00 | |
| 31–60 minutes | 10.0 (43,581) | 22.4 (34,789) | 11.6 (31,454) | 19.4 (696,273) | ||
| > 60 minutes | 10.7 (46,844) | 20.1 (31,294) | 25.8 (70,006) | 26.9 (967,622) | ||
| Intends to quit smoking in the next 6 months | Yes | 36.7 (158,390) | 63.9 (103,630) | 68.2 (202,304) | 62.2 (2,606,495) | χ2 = 116.1, |
| No | 63.3 (273,105) | 36.1 (58,606) | 31.8 (94,358) | 37.8 (1,582,967) | df = 3, p < .001 | |
| More expensive cigarettes would make me quit smoking | Yes | 6.5 (23,740) | 6.4 (8,656) | 9.0 (21,918) | 5.7 (195,686) | χ2 = 4.8, |
| No | 93.5 (340,607) | 93.6 (127,172) | 91.0 (222,698) | 94.3 (3,268,054) | df = 3, p = .187 | |
| Number of quit attempts in last year | None | 58.5 (260,665) | 49.6 (80,984) | 53.6 (163,167) | 54.0 (2,238,550) | χ2 = 35.1, |
| 1 quit attempt | 19.3 (86,168) | 22.1 (36,185) | 14.0 (42,448) | 15.8 (657,282) | df = 3, p < .001 | |
| 2 quit attempts | 13.1 (58,597) | 9.0 (14,746) | 7.6 (23,189) | 11.9 (494,079) | ||
| 3+ quit attempts | 9.1 (40,366) | 19.3 (31,519) | 24.8 (75,412) | 18.3 (758,947) | ||
| Highest level of education attained | Less than secondary | 39.4 (175,193) | 50.2 (82,557) | 37.8 (115,716) | 23.9 (1,032,202) | χ2 = 133.7, |
| Completed secondary | 38.6 (171,849) | 35.0 (57,458) | 43.5 (133,321) | 46.3 (2,003,667) | df = 9, p < .001 | |
| Completed college | 14.0 (62,568) | 12.1 (19,901) | 10.2 (31,150) | 16.5 (711,383) | ||
| Completed university | 8.0 (35,368) | 2.7 (4,387) | 8.5 (26,164) | 13.3 (575,472) | ||
| Income adequacy | Low | 36.8 (126,710) | 34.2 (41,179) | 35.7 (75,644) | 20.8 (621,211) | χ2 = 192.9, |
| Medium low | 45.5 (156,568) | 43.4 (52,386) | 41.0 (87,006) | 32.0 (957,706) | df = 12, p < .00 | |
| Medium | 13.2 (45,324) | 16.2 (19,551) | 13.6 (28,909) | 21.7 (650,210) | ||
| Medium high | 4.1 (14,194) | 5.7 (6,905) | 4.2 (8,879) | 13.2 (396,370) | ||
| High | 0.4 (1,481) | 0.5 (570) | 5.5 (11,644) | 12.3 (369,533) | ||