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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2013 Jan 21;82:1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.12.028

Table 4.

Contribution of Smoking to life expectancy advantage at age 35 based on coefficients adjusted for education

Life Expectancy Advantage Advantage in the Absence of Smoking % of advantage attributable to smoking
Women
 US-born Mexican-American 1.92 1.33 68.20%
 US-born other Hispanic −1.57 −0.78 49.68%1
 Foreign-born Mexican-American 3.11 1.67 53.71%
 Foreign-born other Hispanic 2.98 1.47 49.33%
Men
 US-born Mexican-American 0.81 0.57 70.10%
 US-born other Hispanic −0.4 −0.11 27.51%1
 Foreign-born Mexican-American 2.14 1.29 60.28%
 Foreign-born other Hispanic 2.72 1.89 69.49%

Notes: Life expectancy advantages are in years at age 35. Smoking-attributable mortality and contribution of smoking estimated using a standard attributable-risk method. Coefficients for smoking status are adjusted for education: high school or less, and college graduate or more.

1

For US-born other Hispanics, higher smoking attributable mortality partially explains their mortality disadvantage relative to whites.