Table 3.

Six-Latent-Class Model of Smokers’ Behavioral Responses to Statewide Tobacco Tax Increase

		Low Tax Response		Moderate Tax Response		High Tax Response
Latent class prevalence estimates:	Class labels:	Persistent Smokers	Past-year Initiators	Pre-tax Quitters	Unchanged Light Smokers	Responsive Daily Smokers	Tax-driven Quitters
		.20	.09	.14	.15	.34	.08
Variables and item-response probabilities
Response to tax
No action		0.82	0.87	0.57	0.24	0.15	0.03
Reduced cig. amount or quit attempt		0.17	0.00	0.05	0.47	0.75	0.17
Maintained a quit attempt		0.01	0.13	0.38	0.29	0.10	0.80
Current smoking status
Current smoker/everyday		0.96	0.05	0.00	0.09	0.94	0.02
Current smoker/some days		0.03	0.34	0.00	0.78	0.05	0.00
Former smoker		0.00	0.37	1.00	0.02	0.01	0.98
Current experimenter		0.00	0.24	0.00	0.10	0.00	0.00
Smoking frequency 12 months ago
Every day		0.97	0.03	0.21	0.22	0.91	0.83
Some days		0.00	0.41	0.01	0.53	0.08	0.15
Not at all		0.03	0.56	0.27	0.25	0.01	0.02
Quit within past 2 years prior to tax		0.00	0.00	0.51	0.00	0.00	0.00
Price minimization behaviors in past year
One or fewer		0.20	0.92	1.00	0.10	0.00	0.77
Two or more		0.80	0.08	0.00	0.90	1.00	0.23

N=1569

Item-response probabilities >=.5 in bold to facilitate interpretation

All estimates are derived using survey weights