Table 2.

Employee characteristics by region

	All	Americas	Eastern Europe	Asia	Africa
N	936	269	235	338	94
Age	26 (22– 32)	28 (23– 38)	25 (22– 31)	25 (21– 31)	26.5 (23– 32)
Men	50	56	23	61	62
Education
< High School	14	9	0.4	27	13
High school	50	48	55	42	66
> High school education	37	43	44	31	22
Bartenders/waiters	62	59	62	65	53
Hours per week at work	48 (40– 60)	40 (27– 50)	51 (40– 65)	54 (48– 63)	60 (48– 72)
Smoking status
Never smoker	59	39	60	69	89
Former smoker	7	14	7	4	2
Current smoker	33	47	33	29	9
Living with a smoker
Yes	46	40	60	51	10
No	54	60	40	49	90
Support smoke-free policies
Yes	57	57	52	60	61
No	33	32	42	29	26
Does not matter	10	11	6	11	13
Prefer work in smoke-free places
Yes	78	72	78	83	82
No	9	11	10	9	0
Does not matter	13	18	12	9	18
Hair chemical treatment
Yes	46	36	54	50	43
No	54	64	46	50	57
Hair nicotine (ng/mg)
Never-smokers	1.8 (0.6– 6.0)	1.6 (0.3– 5.1)	1.2 (0.5– 3.9)	2.3 (0.8– 7.6)	1.9 (0.3– 6.5)
Former-smokers	1.1 (0.4– 4.4)	1.0 (0.2– 4.0)	0.7 (0.4– 1.6)	2.7 (1.1– 8.0)	2.2 (0.1– 4.4)
Non-smokers	1.7 (0.5– 5.5)	1.3 (0.3– 4.8)	1.1 (0.5– 3.6)	2.4 (0.9– 7.7)	1.9 (0.3– 6.4)
Current smokers	6.0 (1.6– 16.0)	5.0 (1.3– 14.6)	1.8 (0.7– 6.6)	13.2 (4.5– 26.1)	7.1 (4.6– 16.8)

Values represent percent or median (interquartile range)