Table 1.

Socio-demographic profile of poor smokers and other smokers, France, 2008.

	Poor smokers (N=115)	Other smokers (N=506)
	row percentages
Gender
-women	56%	44%
-men	44%	56% *
Age (in years)
-18–24	10%	20%
-25–34	29%	27%
35–49	40%	32%
50–64	20%	17%
65–75	1%	4% #
Occupation:
-manual worker / clerk	66%	47%
-other	34%	53% ***
Educational level:
-< high-school	75%	52%
-≥ high-school	25%	48% ***
Monthly household income: †
-< 1,500 €	49%	14%
- ≥ 1,500 €	51%	86% ***
Single parent:
-no	84%	94%
-yes	16%	6% **

^***,**,*,#,ns: respectively significant at p<0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, non significant (Pearson’s χ²).

^†41 smokers did not reported their income level and where excluded from the bivariate analysis.