Table 1.
Sample Variables
| Variable | Categories | Description/rational |
|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||
| Race | Black | Collected as 5 categories: Black/African American, Asian, white, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander Coded “Other” category included multiracial responses. |
| White | ||
| Other | ||
| Ethnicity | Hispanic | |
| Non-Hispanic | ||
| Education | High school or less | Collected as 7 categories: less than high school, high school/GED, technical school without degree, some college without degree, 2-year college degree, 4-year college degree, postgraduate work or degree “Some college” category included categories 3–5 above. |
| Some college | ||
| 4-year degree or more | ||
| Age | 18–24 years | Reported as a continuous variable but because of nonnormal distribution was also recoded in categories based on standard census definitions. |
| 25–34 years | ||
| 35–44 years | ||
| 45–54 years | ||
| 55 years and older | ||
| Pertinent study and related variables | ||
| Smoking status | Current | Current=indicated smoking at least 100 lifetime cigarettes and smokes every or some days |
| Former | Former=indicated smoking at least 100 lifetime cigarettes and currently smokes “not at all” | |
| Never | Never=smoked <100 in lifetime | |
| Intention to quit | Trying to quit | Only asked of current smokers |
| Plan to quit within 1 month | ||
| Plan to quit within 6 months | ||
| Not planning to quit | ||
| SGM | SGM Non-SGM |
SGM=identified as any transgender/transsexual status or intersex gender or any sexual identity other than straight/heterosexual |
| Non-SGM=those not SGM | ||
| Composite SGM derived from 3 questions: | ||
| 1. Gender: man, woman, or intersex | ||
| 2. Sexual identity 1: gay, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual/straight, don't know/not sure, or other | ||
| 3. Sexual identity 2: transgender, transsexual, or neither | ||
| Transgender and transsexual responses were combined for all analyses. If someone self-identified as “man” and chose either/or both gay and lesbian, the sexual orientation was recoded as “gay.” Likewise, a “woman” who had marked either or both was recoded as “lesbian.” If multiple genders or sexual orientations were marked, they were coded as “other” except in the gay/lesbian situation noted above. | ||
GED, General Educational Development; SGM, sexual and gender minorities.