Table 1.
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* | |
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% 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 |
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.