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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2014 Feb 25;23(0):e127–e132. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051279

Table 2.

Sexual orientation disparities in smoking-related outcomes: National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, 2004–2005

Smoking
variable		 LGB
(N=577)		 Heterosexual
(N=33 598)		 χ2, p value
Ever smoked
  % 55.46 47.01 χ2=16.26,
  N 320 15 794 p<0.01
  SE 0.02 0.01
Current smoking*
  % 33.8 22.78 χ2=38.92,
  N 195 7653 p<0.01
  SE 0.02 <0.01
Nicotine dependence among current smokers (N=7848)
  % 66.67 56.63 χ2=7.81,
  N 130 4334 p<0.01
  SE 0.03 0.01
Half-packs among frequent smokers† (N=6985)
  Mean 1.94 1.80 t= −1.72,
  N 161 6104 p=0.09
  SE 0.08 0.01
Median 2 2
*

Current Smoking defined as 1+ cigarettes within the last year.

†

Half Packs is an ordinal variable of number of half packs typically smoked on days when respondent smoked, among those who smoked every day or nearly every day (range 0–6 half packs, corresponding to <10 to 60 cigarettes per day). Half-packs=10 cigarettes.

LGB, Lesbian, gay, bisexual.