Table 1.

Prevalence of tobacco use among adults aged 50 years or older in 2008–2009 (N=10,891)

Tobacco use		Past-year use			Past-month use
	Sample size	Any tobaccoa	Cigarette	Cigar	Smokeless tobaccob	Daily cigarettec	Pipe tobaccoc
Prevalence	N	% (SE)	% (SE)	% (SE)	% (SE)	% (SE)	% (SE)
Overall use	10,891	23.7 (0.54)	19.1 (0.49)	5.4 (0.28)	2.2 (0.20)	12.7 (0.45)	0.7 (1.10)
Age in years		χ2=283(1) <0.001	χ2=234(1) <0.001	χ2=83(1) <0.001	χ2=5(1) 0.034	χ2=111(1) <0.001	χ2=1(1) 0.297
50–64	6,778	30.2 (0.72)	24.8 (0.68)	7.4 (0.41)	2.5 (0.29)	16.5 (0.66)	0.6 (0.11)
65 or older	4,113	14.1 (0.66)	10.6 (0.62)	2.3 (0.33)	1.7 (0.23)	7.1 (0.54)	0.8 (0.18)
Sex		χ2=150(1) <0.001	χ2=22(1) <0.001	χ2=284(1) <0.001	χ2=93(1) <0.001	χ2=12(1) 0.001	χ2=32(1) <0.001
Male	4,912	30.1 (0.80)	21.0 (0.64)	10.2 (5.1)	4.2 (0.39)	14.1 (0.63)	1.3 (0.21)
Female	5,979	18.2 (0.60)	17.4 (0.60)	1.3 (1.17)	0.5 (0.31)	11.5 (0.54)	0.1(0.04)
Race/ethnicity		χ2=22(3) <0.001	χ2=15(3) 0.003	χ2=20(3) 0.001	χ2=57(3) <0.001	χ2=13(3) 0.007	χ2=13(3) 0.008
White	8,297	24.0 (0.60)	18.8 (0.56)	5.6 (3.1)	2.4 (0.25)	13.2 (0.52)	0.7 (0.12)
African-American	1,045	29.5 (1.77)	25.3 (1.80)	6.3 (0.86)	2.2 (0.47)	13.0 (1.16)	1.0 (0.38)
Hispanic	909	17.4 (2.12)	15.9 (2.11)	3.7 (0.72)	0.1 (0.14)	8.2 (1.28)	0.4 (0.30)
Other	640	19.1 (2.09)	15.6 (2.03)	3.1 (0.90)	3.0 (0.97)	11.5 (1.18)	0.1 (0.13)
Survey year		χ2=0.6(1) 0.429	χ2=0.01(1) 0.924	χ2=0.02(1) 0.899	χ2=4(1) 0.054	χ2=0.15(1) 0.670	χ2=1(1) 0.297
2008	5,325	24.1 (0.85)	19.1 (0.79)	5.3 (0.36)	2.6 (0.33)	12.7 (0.1)	0.6 (0.13)
2009	5,566	23.3 (0.68)	19.0 (0.57)	5.4 (0.40)	1.8 (0.24)	12.9 (0.17)	0.7 (0.15)

Sample sizes are unweighted; percentages are weighted.

SE: standard error.

^aAny tobacco use included use of cigarettes, cigar, chewing tobacco, snuff, or pipe tobacco in the past year; pipe tobacco included past-month use only.

^bSmokeless tobacco use included chewing tobacco and snuff.

^cPast-year data are not available.