Table 1.

Sensitivity analysis (from the new method to estimate smoking-attributable mortality): proportion of the difference in life expectancy at 50 years explained by smoking

	Foreign–native		Hispanic–non-Hispanic White
Scenario	Females (%)	Males (%)	Females (%)	Males (%)
Principal estimate	71.02	58.27	75.33	88.17
Low estimate (P and Q vary by subpopulation)	61.75	47.77	70.75	75.71
High estimate (P and Q vary by subpopulation)	84.90	79.02	84.58	116.56
Low estimate with strong salmon-bias correction	43.84	38.42	61.89	64.61
Low estimate with ½ salmon-bias correction	52.79	43.10	66.32	70.16
Age-varying Q (with Q from PGW)	66.12	46.77	74.98	73.55
Strong adjustment for possible confounders	45.77	38.84	48.55	58.78