Table 3. Association Between Public Support for Tobacco Control Strategies, Current Smoking Behavior, and Demographic Characteristics, Tobacco Behavior and Public Opinion Survey, New York City, Years 2010, 2011, 2012, Combined.
| Demographics | Favor Smoke-Free Parks |
Favor Smoke-Free Beaches |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted Prevalence (95% CI) | Multivariable regression |
Weighted Prevalence (95% CI) | Multivariable regression |
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| Adjusted OR (95% CI) | Adjusted P Value, χ2 | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | Adjusted P Value, χ2 | |||
| Smoking | ||||||
| Current smoker | 32 (30–34) | 0.39 (0.34-.44) | <.001 | 32 (30–34) | 0.36 (.31-.41) | <.001 |
| Nonsmoker | 55 (53–57) | 1 [Reference] | 56 (54–58) | 1 [Reference] | ||
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 56 (53–58) | 1.45 (1.23–1.70) | <.001 | 56 (54–58) | 1.43 (1.22–1.69) | <.001 |
| Male | 46 (43–48) | 1 [Reference] | 47 (44–50) | 1 [Reference] | ||
| Age group, y | ||||||
| 18–24 | 61 (54–68) | 1.40 (0.98–2.02) | .03 | 57 (50–64) | 1.17 (0.82–1.67) | .048 |
| 25–44 | 57 (54–61) | 1.30 (1.04–1.62) | 58 (55–62) | 1.33 (1.07–1.66) | ||
| 45–64 | 49 (46–52) | 1.02 (0.83–1.25) | 50 (47–53) | 1.05 (0.86–1.29) | ||
| ≥65 | 49 (45–52) | 1 [Reference] | 50 (47–54) | 1 [Reference] | ||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic black | 54 (50–58) | 1.27 (1.04–1.56) | <.001 | 50 (46–54) | 0.94 (0.77–1.16) | <.002 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 62 (58–67) | 1.59 (1.24–2.04) | 61 (57–66) | 1.53 (1.22–1.92) | ||
| Asian/other | 61 (55–67) | 1.59 (1.17–2.15) | 60 (54–66) | 1.43 (1.07–1.92) | ||
| Non-Hispanic white | 47 (44–49) | 1 [Reference] | 50 (48–53) | 1 [Reference] | ||
| Language spoken most often at home | ||||||
| Other than English | 65 (60–69) | 1.47 (1.13–1.91) | .004 | 62 (57–67) | –a | –a |
| English | 50 (48–52) | 1 [Reference] | 51 (49–53) | |||
| Education | ||||||
| Less than high school | 56 (49–62) | –a | –a | 52 (45–59) | –a | –a |
| High school graduate/some college | 52 (49–55) | 50 (47–53) | ||||
| College graduate or more | 51 (48–53) | 54 (52–57) | ||||
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.
a
We initially included smoking status, sex, age group, race/ethnicity, language spoken at home, and education in the logistic regression models. We removed terms with P values greater than .10 individually. We found no significant interactions between smoking status and demographic characteristics in the final models.