Table 2.

Smoking behaviours and motives of poor smokers and other smokers, France, 2008.

	Poor smokers (N=115)	Other smokers (N=506)
	row percentages and means
Daily cigarette consumption
- 1 to 5 cigarettes	12%	20%
- 6 to 10 cigarettes	35%	33%
- 11 to 20 cigarettes	32%	35%
- > 20 cigarettes	21%	12% *
Tobacco dependency (Fagerström):
- none / mild / moderate	54%	72%
- strong	46%	28% ***
Smoking less cigarettes since the cigarette price increase
-no	63%	66%
-yes	37%	34% ns
Smoking cheaper or hand-rolled cigarettes since the cigarette price increase
-no	50%	67%
-yes	50%	33% ***
Smoking motives (scale of 1 to 10):
-automatic smoking	6.7	5.2 ***
-aid to socialisation	4.4	6.9 ***
-enjoyment	6.7	6.4 ns
-stress relief	6.4	5.8 #
-improvement in concentration	1.9	2.6 *
-to take one’s mind off cares and worries	4.4	3.7 #
-weight control	2.1	2.2 ns

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