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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009 May 31;104(Suppl 1):S50–S57. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2009.04.007

Table 3.

Risk of New Onset of Daily Smoking at Wave 2 among Never Daily Smokers at Wave 1 (N = 21,226): Effects of Education Stratified by Gender

Stratified Risks
Education % w/ Onset
of Daily
Smoking
(SE)† 		OR
(95% CI)‡
Women (13,258)
4y College degree+ 0.8 (0.2) 1.0
2y College degree 1.7 (0.4) 2.09 (0.97 - 4.52)
Some college 3.4 (0.5) 4.39 (2.37 - 8.12)
HS degree 2.4 (0.3) 3.07 (1.71 - 5.51)
Some HS/GED 2.8 (0.5) 3.60 (1.88 - 6.88)
< HS 1.2 (0.4) 1.51 (0.66 - 3.48)
Men (7,968)
4y College degree+ 1.0 (0.2) 1.0
2y College degree 3.2 (0.9) 3.24 (1.59 - 6.63)
Some college 3.2 (0.6) 3.35 (1.91 - 5.89)
HS degree 4.1 (0.6) 4.30 (2.51 - 7.36)
Some HS/GED 7.8 (1.2) 8.38 (4.77 - 14.71)
< HS 4.8 (1.8) 5.06 (2.02 - 12.72)
†

Percentages were weighted and standard errors corrected for the NESARC's complex sampling design using SUDAAN.

‡

OR = odds ratio; 95% CI = 95% confidence interval.