Table 4.
Predicted smoking and drinking response to cigarette price—by age group, BRFSS 2001-6(a)
|
Current Smoking |
Current Drinking |
Binge Drinking |
Heavy Drinking |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage point change(c) | Percentage point change(c) | Percentage point change(c,d) | Percentage point change(c) | |
| N = 1,323,758(b) | ||||
|
Age group | ||||
| 18-20 |
-1.76 |
-4.02* |
2.98 |
0.56 |
| 21-29 |
0.83 |
-0.83 |
4.06*** |
1.15** |
| 30-64 |
-1.10** |
0.82 |
-0.09 |
-0.19 |
| 65 and older | 1.43* | 3.72*** | -1.95** | 0.05 |
Notes: Models included covariates for gender, poverty status, race/ethnicity, co-habitating partner status, employment status, educational level, beer price (six-pack), magnitude of state smokefree laws, state poverty rate.
BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Surveys.
*p < .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p < .001, using t-tests, df =1,320,358, for current smoking, current drinking, and heavy drinking, df =1,047,879 for binge drinking.
(a) Weighted data are presented to reflect the complex sampling design of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2001-2006.
(b) This is sample used for all analyses, except as noted.
(c) Percentage point change reflects predicted changes in smoking and drinking pattern response to a $1 increase in state cigarette price.
(d) N = 1,050,573. Includes observations for 2001-2005 only due to change in definition of binge drinking in 2006.