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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 2016 May 31;62:35–41. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.05.021

Table 1.

Summary of demographics for menthol and non-menthol cigarette users and non-flavored and flavored other tobacco product only users (total sample n=4,239; subgroup denominator n=1,037 current tobacco users with valid data on menthol and/or flavored items) [WAVE III]

Variable Full Sample (n=4,239) Menthol Cigarette Users (n=311) Non- menthol Cigarette Users (n=426) p* Flavored Other (non-cig) Tobacco Only Users (n=114) Non-flavored Other (non- cig) Tobacco Only Users (n=186) p*
% or mean % or mean % or mean % or mean
Overall 30.0 41.1 11.0 17.9
Age (%) 18–24 60.1 45.7 34.5 0.002 64.9 40.9 <.001
25–34 39.9 54.3 65.5 35.1 59.1
Gender (%) Male 41.0 40.2 54.0 <.001 51.8 69.4 0.002
Female 59.0 59.8 46.0 48.3 30.7
Race/ethnicity (%) White non-Hispanic 61.6 56.0 73.5 <.001 56.1 63.4 0.209
Black non-Hispanic 9.4 15.8 2.4 <.001 10.5 8.6 0.578
Other, non-Hispanic 8.0 8.4 7.5 0.673 9.7 5.4 0.159
Hispanic 21.0 19.9 16.7 0.254 23.7 22.6 0.826
Education (%) Less than high school 7.5 9.4 8.7 0.741 7.9 8.6 0.830
High school 22.8 30.9 28.9 0.558 23.7 23.7 0.996
Some college or more 69.7 60.5 61.7 0.723 68.4 67.7 0.903
Self-identified financial situation (%) Don’t/just meet basic expenses 36.5 52.4 46.7 0.112 43.0 33.9 0.113
Meet needs with a little left 39.6 35.7 37.0 0.746 32.5 44.6 0.037
Live comfortably 24.0 11.9 16.3 0.100 24.6 21.5 0.539
Income to poverty <1.00 (%) Less than 1 20.8 32.8 26.5 0.064 19.3 18.8 0.918
1+ 79.2 67.2 73.5 80.7 81.2
Parent(s) smoked during childhood (%) Neither of them 54.9 33.0 37.0 0.290 51.7 53.2 0.804
One or both of them 45.1 67.0 63.2 48.3 46.8
Sexual orientation (%) Heterosexual/straight 93.5 85.8 91.5 0.016 89.3 96.1 0.021
LGBT 6.5 14.2 8.6 10.7 3.9
Sensation seeking (mean, SD) (23.2,6.0) (26.1,6.2) (25.4,5.8) 0.121 (26.4,5.2) (24.7,6.0) 0.015
Anxiety (PHQ-2—GAD) (%) Under the cut-off 87.3 73.9 83.2 0.002 82.1 85.9 0.391
Over the cut-off 12.7 26.1 16.8 17.9 14.1
Other substance use (%) No current use 37.2 19.0 20.2 0.686 10.5 16.1 0.175
Any current use 62.8 81.0 79.8 89.5 83.9
Alcohol use (%) No current alcohol use 38.6 21.9 23.9 0.523 14.0 18.8 0.284
Current alcohol use 61.4 78.1 76.1 86.0 81.2
Marijuana use (%) No current marijuana use 90.1 75.0 77.1 0.505 70.8 85.3 0.002
Current marijuana use 9.9 25.0 22.9 29.2 14.7
Other drug use (%) No current other drug use 98.2 94.5 96.7 0.144 94.7 95.1 0.873
Current other drug use 1.8 5.5 3.3 5.3 4.9
Buy tobacco products on the Internet (%) Have not purchased any 92.0 91.1 0.672 86.6 86.6 0.944
Have purchased 8.0 8.9 13.2 13.4
Self-identified smoking status (%) Smoker/social smoker/ occasional smoker 18.7 87.8 82.4 0.044 22.3 28.1 0.270
Ex-smoker/tried smoking/ non-smoker 81.3 17.7 12.2 77.7 71.9
b

Sample sizes for the menthol cigarette users group ranged from 307 to 311 for the current variable list. Sample sizes ranged from 422–426 for the non-menthol cigarette users group, from 111–114 for the flavored other tobacco product only users and from 184–186 for the non-flavored other tobacco product only users.

*

Comparisons are between menthol and non-menthol cigarette users and between flavored and non-flavored other tobacco product users, respectively.

Note: There are 13 cases missing on menthol use (750 total unwted current cigarette users, 737 of whom have valid data on menthol use). 586 (76.1%) of the current cigarette users reported using cigarettes only. 22 (24 wted) of the current cigarette users reported flavored cigarette use, 15 of whom used cigarettes only. 11 cases reported dual use of menthol and flavored cigarettes and 4 cases reported using flavored cigarettes only.