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. 2009 Dec 17;12(2):96–104. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntp182

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for total sample and by site, sociodemographic, smoking, and alcohol use variables

University of Wisconsin campuses
University of Washington, Seattle (n = 817) University of British Columbia, Vancouver (n = 280)
Variable Total sample (n = 2,091) Madison (n = 634) Stevens point (n = 196) Oshkosh (n = 164)
% Female 65.7 63.2 54.6 77.4 68.5 63.9
% Age 18–19 years 25.4 22.7 74.5 37.2 17.7 12.5
% Age 20–21 years 26.3 34.7 20.4 34.1 18.6 29.3
% Age 22–24 years 21.4 27.0 2.0 24.4 19.1 27.1
% Age 25+ years 26.9 15.6 3.1 4.3 44.6 31.1
% Fresh/sophomore 30.3 27.4 85.6 44.5 19.9 20.4
% Junior/senior 40.1 50.0 13.8 52.4 33.6 47.5
% Graduate school 29.6 22.6 0.5 3.0 46.6 32.1
% White 78.5 87.5 93.8 93.3 70.4 63.1
% Black 2.0 1.9 1.0 1.2 2.8 0.7
% Native American 1.4 1.1 1.5 0.6 1.8 1.4
% Asian 12.2 5.5 3.1 3.0 17.5 23.3
% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1.1
% Hispanic 3.8 4.1 1.0 1.2 4.9 3.2
% Other 4.9 4.0 0.5 1.8 5.5 10.4
% Living on campus 34.0 36.9 72.3 47.6 15.9 45.4
% High-risk drinking 29.0 35.3 40.2 46.5 18.9 25.6
% >1 Binges (past 30 days) 57.3 66.6 67.7 72.7 44.1 59.2
% Driving after drinking 33.7 33.7 31.6 33.3 37.8 23.7
% Riding with a drinking driver 39.3 40.1 39.3 44.5 39.3 34.3
% Used seat belt half or less of the  time (past 6 months) 5.6 5.9 14.3 12.2 2.5 4.1
% Smoking at all, (past 3 months) 23.2 24.5 27.0 35.8 19.6 20.8
Among smokers
    <1 cpd, % 41.1 46.2 47.2 32.8 39.6 34.5
    1–9 cpd, % 47.2 43.6 41.5 51.7 47.2 56.9
    10+ cpd, % 11.8 10.3 11.3 15.5 13.2 8.6
Waking up wanting to smoke, % 29.0 25.2 26.4 43.1 22.8 44.8

Note. cpd = cigarettes per day.