Table 1.
Demographic and Smoking Characteristics of Each of the Eight Sub-Populations and All Current Smokers
| 18–25 year olds | 26+ year olds | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics and smoking characteristics | Gen Pop, n = 602 | AA, n = 600 | Hisp, n = 600 | Low Edu, n = 962 | All, n = 2203a | Gen Pop, n = 644 | AA, n = 600 | Hisp, n = 600 | Low Edu, n = 828 | All, n = 2285a |
| Age | 21.9 | 22.0 | 21.8 | 21.6 | 21.8 | 46.1 | 45.0 | 40.1 | 46.6 | 44.7 |
| Gender (female) | 46% | 55% | 55% | 44% | 50% | 51% | 61% | 54% | 50% | 54% |
| Race (white) | 73% | 0% | 74% | 75% | 57% | 70% | 0% | 83% | 74% | 59% |
| (Black) | 14% | 87% b | 6% | 15% | 29% | 23% | 97% b | 5% | 22% | 35% |
| (Other) | 12% | 14% | 20% | 11% | 14% | 7% | 3% | 12% | 4% | 6% |
| Ethnicity (Hispanic) | 17% | 8% | 100% | 20% | 34% | 16% | 4% | 100% | 15% | 32% |
| Education (low) | 57% | 51% | 43% | 100% | 59% | 41% | 34% | 31% | 100% | 48% |
| Annual household income (in $1000s) | 43 | 36 | 44 | 35 | 40 | 47 | 41 | 51 | 34 | 44 |
| Smoke daily | 72% | 74% | 65% | 79% | 72% | 84% | 85% | 85% | 85% | 85% |
| Contemplation ladder (0–10) | 6.1 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.9 |
| Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (0–10) | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.8 |
| Cigarette cravings (1–5) | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
| Cigarettes per day | 12 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 18 | 16 |
| Quit attempts in the past year | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Note. AA = African American; Gen Pop = general population; Hisp = Hispanic; Low Edu = low education smokers. The defining demographic characteristic for each sub-population is underlined.
aSample size for all current smokers (All) is less than the sum of the four sub-populations (general population, African American, Hispanic, and low education smokers) because the low education smoker sub-population contains proportionally weighted sub-sets of the African American and Hispanic sub-populations.
bParticipants who chose more than one race to describe themselves were categorized as “Other” race. If any of the races they chose were black, they could be included in the African American sub-population (explaining why it is not 100% black).