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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Dec;18(12):3435–3443. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0766

Table 4.

Logistic Regression for New Experimentation Stratified by Country of Birth

Mexican-born (N = 380) US-born (N = 749)

OR 95% CI p-value OR 95% CI p-value
Age (years) 1.43 1.03 – 1.97 0.03 1.31 1.08–1.60 < 0.01
Male 0.86 0.64 – 1.17 0.34 1.29 1.06–1.58 0.01
At least one detention 1.42 1.07 – 1.87 0.02 1.17 0.98–1.40 0.09
Exposure to smoking in movies 1.52 1.14 – 2.05 < 0.01 1.04 0.86–1.27 0.68
Risk taking tendencies 1.36 1.04 – 1.78 0.02 1.09 0.90–1.32 0.38
At least one friend smokes 1.11 0.83 – 1.48 0.49 1.19 1.01–1.40 0.04
  • New experimentation includes participants who reported that they had not experimented at baseline and reported that they had experimented on one of the four subsequent contacts.