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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2014 Apr 16;55(3):373–379. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.02.020

Table 3. Tobacco use by gender expression, Growing Up Today Study, 1996-2007 waves, (N= 9,434).

Cigarette smoking, risk of worse trajectory across adolescence Chewing tobacco use, past year, any Cigar smoking, past year, any

Model 1a: Gender expression Model 1b: Further adjusted for media engagement Model 2a: Gender expression Model 2b: Further adjusted for media engagement Model 3a: Gender expression Model 3b: Further adjusted for media engagement
Prevalence odds ratio (95% confidence interval) Prevalence risk ratio (95% confidence interval)

MALES
Gender expression
 Least masculine 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference]
 2nd quartile 0.67 (0.53, 0.85)*** 0.77 (0.61, 0.98)* 1.50 (0.95, 2.36) 1.60 (1.00, 2.54)* 1.18 (0.88, 1.58) 1.20 (0.89, 1.60)
 3rd quartile 0.64 (0.49, 0.83)*** 0.71 (0.55, 0.93)** 1.57 (0.96, 2.57) 1.66 (1.01, 2.73)* 1.31 (0.96, 1.78) 1.33 (0.98, 1.80)
 Most masculine 0.69 (0.55, 0.87)** 0.78 (0.62, 1.00)* 1.78 (1.14, 2.79)* 1.88 (1.19, 2.97)** 1.55 (1.17, 2.06)** 1.58 (1.19, 2.09)**
FEMALES
Gender expression
 Least feminine 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference] 1.0 [reference]
 2nd quartile 0.84 (0.71, 1.00)* 0.84 (0.70, 1.00)* 0.63 (0.36, 1.11) 0.64 (0.36, 1.13) 0.57 (0.42, 0.78)*** 0.58 (0.43, 0.80)***
 3rd quartile 0.74 (0.63, 0.86)** 0.70 (0.60, 0.82)*** 0.92 (0.60, 1.43) 0.88 (0. 57, 1.37) 0.58 (0.45, 0.75)*** 0.58 (0.45, 0.75)***
 Most feminine 0.75 (0.65, 0.88)** 0.70 (0.60, 0.82)*** 0.68 (0.42, 1.08) 0.60 (0.38, 0.94)* 0.61 (0.47, 0.79)*** 0.59 (0.46, 0.76)***

Adjusted for age and race/ethnicity (white/nonwhite). Past-year chewing tobacco use measured in the 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2001 waves. Past-year cigar smoking measured in the 2001 wave. Odds ratios of following a worse smoking trajectory were calculated with ordered logistic regression with a cumulative logit link and a multinomial distribution.

*

Wald χ2 P<0.05.

**

Wald χ2 P<0.01.

***

Wald χ2 P<0.001.