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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Dent Assoc. 2013 Aug;144(8):930–938. doi: 10.14219/jada.archive.2013.0212

Table 2.

Association between smoking and smokeless tobacco use

Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2011

Unadjusted association
Smoking
OR
9.68 (7.72, 12.13)
p-value
<.0001

Adjusted Model
Overall
OR, n=9655
p-value Female, n=5146
OR
p-value Male, n=4509
OR
p-value
Smoking 3.92 (2.89, 5.31) <.0001 5.45 (2.16, 13.74) .0003 3.73 (2.63, 5.30) <.0001
Other variables:
Male v. female 7.28 (5.25, 10.09) <.0001
Race/ethnicity
   NHW 2.55 (1.66, 3.92) <.0001 1.74 (0.72, 4.23) .0107 2.82 (1.87, 4.24) <.0001
   NHB 0.45 (0.22, 0.90) <.0001 0.65 (0.18, 2.41) .2288 0.42 (0.20, 0.89) <.0001
   Other 1.94 (1.13, 3.31) .0227 1.07 (0.35, 3.30) .9493 2.23 (1.25, 3.97) .0198
Education
   Grade 10 1.08 (0.75, 1.55) .2939 1.04 (0.55, 1.96) .8076 1.09 (0.71, 1.68) .3657
   Grade 11 1.09 (0.80, 1.48) .1996 1.05 (0.54, 2.07) .7903 1.10 (0.76, 1.59) .1976
   Grade 12 0.82 (0.54, 1.25) .0893 0.88 (0.41, 1.86) .6700 0.80 (0.53, 1.23) .0384
Playing a sport 0.57 (0.45, 0.72) <.0001 0.77 (0.44, 1.36) .3719 0.52 (0.40, 0.68) <.0001
Overweight 1.46 (1.08, 1.96) .0133 1.53 (0.83, 2.81) .1736 1.42 (0.98, 2.06) .0650
1–3 sodas/week 0.72 (0.56, 0.92) .0094 0.64 (0.35, 1.18) .1513 0.75 (0.58, 0.97) .0271
Marijuana 1.31 (0.92, 1.87) .1312 0.78 (0.32, 1.93) .5894 1.47 (0.98, 2.21) .0624
Sexual Intercourse 2.10 (1.38, 3.31) <.0001 1.94 (0.86, 4.37) .1081 2.13 (1.22, 3.72) .0081
Binge drinking 2.50 (1.82, 3.45) <.0001 2.73 (1.01, 7.38) .0471 2.49 (1.82, 3.39) <.0001
Riding with driver using alcohol 1.60 (1.20, 2.14) .0014 1.30 (0.66, 2.56) .4479 1.68 (1.19, 2.36) .0029

OR=odds ratio AOR=adjusted odds ratio

The adjusted model includes: race/ethnicity (Non-Hispanic Whites and Non-Hispanic Blacks and Others, Non-Hispanic v. Hispanic); education (grades 10, 11, 12 v. 9); rode with a driver who had been drinking within the past 30 days (yes v. no); smoked within the past 30 days (yes v. no); played a sport (yes v. no); drank 1-3 sodas during the last week (yes v. no); used marijuana (yes v. no); had sexual intercourse (yes v. no); binge drinking (yes v. no) and body mass index (overweight v. normal weight).