Table 1.

Distribution of age, marital status, education, and smoking status in men in the 1963 and the 1975 Washington County, Maryland private censuses

	1963		1975
	N	%	N	%
Age
18–29	6,528	24.4	8,121	28.7
30–39	5,599	20.9	5,205	18.4
40–49	5,650	21.1	4,871	17.2
50–59	4,356	16.3	4,708	16.6
60–69	2,756	10.3	3,298	11.7
70 or older	1,921	7.2	2,089	7.4
Marital Status1
Married	20,780	77.8	21,720	76.9
Widowed	928	3.5	748	2.7
Divorced or separated	902	3.4	1,113	3.9
Single	4,103	15.4	4,666	16.5
Education2
Up to 8 years	9158	35.1	5,659	20.3
8–12 years	13016	49.9	15,895	57.0
13–16 years	3245	12.4	5,066	18.2
16 years or more	687	2.6	1,263	4.5
Smoking Status
No active, no passive	3,884	14.5	5,782	20.4
Passive only	1,552	5.8	1,773	6.3
Former cigarette	5,079	18.9	7,649	27.0
Current cigarette	14,513	54.1	11,353	40.1
Pipe/cigar3	1,782	6.7	1,735	6.1

¹marital status is missing for 97 men in the 1963 cohort and for 45 men in the 1975 cohort

²education is missing for 704 men in the 1963 cohort and for 409 men in the 1975 cohort

³assessed as ever smoked cigar or pipe in the 1963 census and as current cigar or pipe smoker in the 1975 census