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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Sep 13;39(10):1989–1996. doi: 10.1111/acer.12840

TABLE 1.

Demographic covariates by Wave 1 smoking status (n=9,134)

Variable Total Wave 1 Non-Smokers Wave 1 Non-Daily Smokers Wave 1 Daily Smokers p
Total (%) 56.9 7.0 36.1 <0.0001

Gender (%)
Male 64 62.2 65.9 66.5 <0.0001
Female 36 37.8 34.1 33.5

Age
18–29 13.1 9.7 26.6 15.9 <0.0001
30–44 35.7 35.2 43.3 35
45–64 40.3 41.2 26.4 41.7
65+ 10.8 13.9 3.8 7.4

Race/ Ethnicity (%)
NH White 81 81 79.6 81.3 <0.0001
NH Black 7.1 6.9 5.4 7.8
NH Native American / AK Native 3 2.3 4 3.8
NH Asian/ Pacific Islander 1.5 1.4 1.8 1.6
Hispanic 7.4 8.5 9.2 5.5

Marital status (%)
Current 65.7 71.6 59.8 57.5 <0.0001
Widowed, separated, divorced 18.3 14.8 16.8 24.2
Never 16 13.6 23.4 18.3

Personal income (%)
$0–19,999 32.8 28.5 28.9 40.4 <0.0001
$20–34,999 23.2 22.2 21.5 25.3
$35–69,999 29.8 31.5 33.1 26.5
$70,000+ 14.1 17.8 16.5 7.8

Education (%)
Less than HS degree 11.1 8.3 6.4 16.6 <0.0001
High school degree 48.7 42.2 47.9 59.1
More than HS 40.2 49.5 45.7 24.3

Use of tobacco products1 (%)
Cigarettes 67.8 n/a 100 100.0 <0.0001
Cigars 13.2 22.5 19.8
Pipe 10.2 11.2 12.8
Snuff 9.1 22.4 15.8
Chewing tobacco 9.6 21.8 16.4
Lifetime nicotine dependence 36.1 42.8 70.6

Non-disordered alcohol use at Wave 1 (%)
Sub-threshold use* 57.7 62.4 52.5 51.5 <.0001
At least one abuse/dependence symptom* 49.0 42.3 71.5 55.0 <.0001

NH, non-Hispanic; AK, Alaska; HS, high school

1

includes those who report smoking cigarettes, with or without other tobacco use

*

Reported as column percents (i.e. among those who report daily cigarette use, XX% reportsub-threshold alcohol use