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. 2009 May 22;9:149. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-149

Table 3.

Prevalence of current smoking (%) by background characteristics of men living in the urban non slum areas

Variables n Cigarette (%) Bidi (%) Any of the two (%)
Age:
15–29 2431 38.7 0.3 38.8
30–44 2065 50.9 3.6 53.2
45–59 1171 45.7 8.5 50.3
P = 0.000 P = 0.000 P = 0.000
Division:
Barisal 203 34.5 6.5 38.6
Chittagong 2008 44.8 1.7 46.3
Dhaka 1846 44.4 2.3 45.4
Khulna 536 41.8 10.4 46.8
Rajshahi 494 50.4 5.3 52.3
Sylhet 580 46.4 1.4 47.6
P = 0.003 P = 0.000 P = 0.023
Education:
No 764 59.0 11.5 65.8
Primary 1003 47.3 5.6 50.9
Secondary 2113 45.6 1.7 46.1
Higher secondary 1787 35.9 0.1 36.0
P = 0.000 P = 0.000 P = 0.000
Marital status:
Never married 1950 34.4 0.2 34.5
Married 3676 49.8 4.8 52.5
Divorced/S/W/D 41 68.3 2.4 70.7
P = 0.000 P = 0.000 P = 0.000
Religion:
Islam 4730 44.1 3.4 46.2
Hinduism 832 45.3 1.3 45.9
Buddhism 32 59.4 0.0 59.4
Christianity 73 61.6 12.3 63.0
P = 0.007 P = 0.000 P = 0.015
Birth place:
City corporation 1641 42.0 1.3 42.4
District town 818 48.0 5.0 51.0
Other town 162 38.3 0.6 38.3
Village 2986 45.2 3.9 47.5
Abroad 60 60.0 1.6 60.0
P = 0.002 P = 0.000 P = 0.000
Types of work:
Not working 674 28.0 1.2 28.5
For family business 252 47.2 0.0 47.2
For private company 1849 44.7 1.1 44.7
For Government 584 44.5 1.4 45.0
Self employed 1663 47.3 2.8 48.8
Day labor 654 54.0 15.0 63.4
P = 0.000 P = 0.000 P = 0.000
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