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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2016 Mar;20(3):701–709. doi: 10.1007/s10995-015-1870-3

Table 3.

Smoking prevalence and estimated number of smoking-attributable outcomes by age group, education, and race/ethnicity

Category Smoking
Prevalence (%)
Preterm births (n) Births with low birth
weight (n)
SIDS (n)
ME LB UB ME LB UB ME LB UB ME LB UB
OVERALL 11.6 8.6 14.2 20,217 7,709 35,795 14,216 7,794 23,996 302 233 359
AGE
<15 3.4 2.1 5.0 12 4 33 6 3 21 0 0 0
15-19 18.2 11.0 26.2 3018 970 6010 2265 1069 4042 36 7 74
20-24 17.9 13.3 25.8 7224 2830 14742 5601 3163 10203 101 24 210
25-29 11.0 8.6 12.2 5075 2068 8532 3525 2037 5642 82 19 159
30-34 7.1 5.4 7.8 2997 1178 5096 1933 1071 3172 49 11 98
35-39 5.6 4.3 6.1 1330 520 2229 815 448 1327 18 4 37
40-44 5.5 4.2 6.0 362 142 601 231 127 374 4 1 9
45-49 3.4 2.7 3.8 28 10 47 17 9 28 0 0 0
Total 11.8 8.5 13.8 20046 7722 37291 14393 7928 24810 292 67 582
EDUCATION
8th grade or less 4.9 4.3 6.0 439 198 805 282 178 504 6 2 14
9-12, no diploma 18.0 15.9 22.1 5074 2368 8819 3634 2441 5833 60 17 112
High school grad
or GED
16.3 13.3 20.0 7514 3236 13147 5255 3263 8549 99 26 190
Some college, no
degree
10.6 9.9 13.1 3886 1874 6951 2627 1799 4446 58 16 119
Associate degree 6.4 6.0 7.9 804 384 1464 508 341 893 13 4 29
Bachelor's degree 1.4 1.3 1.7 365 172 679 255 166 474 7 2 17
Master's degree 0.6 0.6 0.7 67 32 125 49 32 93 1 0 3
Doctorate or
professional degree
0.4 0.4 0.5 13 6 24 10 6 18 0 0 1
Total 14.2 8.6 17.4 18162 8270 15709 7320 25816 20809 358 68 701
RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUP
Hispanic 3.3 1.9 4.8 1301 398 850 365 1842 850 21 4 57
Non-Hispanic
White
16.7 12.7 20.2 17469 5666 10669 5070 16841 10669 266 54 479
Non-Hispanic
Black
9.8 7.1 12.0 4385 1382 3493 1581 5888 3493 45 8 90
Non-Hispanic
other races
5.1 3.4 6.2 664 204 627 274 1121 627 11 2 25
Origin unknown
or not stated
6.5 4.4 7.9 98 30 70 31 124 70 1 0 3
Total 12.5 8.5 15.4 23917 7680 41627 17041 7959 28522 355 67 696

SIDS= Sudden Infant death Syndrome: ME = midlevel estimate; LB = lower bound; UB = upper bound; The smoking prevalence of prenatal smokers are the percent of women having live births who self-reported tobacco use during pregnancy out of all live births in states using the compatible BC form. 20.2% of live births were in states not using compatible BC forms out of all births and are omitted from these calculations.