Table 1.
Weighted overall demographic characteristics and by tobacco product use pattern category among adult tobacco users, NHANES 1999–2012.
| Overall | CIG | NCC | NC | NCC&NC | CIG&NC | CIG&NCC | POLY | P value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Wt % | n | Wt % | n | Wt % | n | Wt % | n | Wt % | n | Wt % | n | W% | n | W% | ||
| Overall | 9158 | 100 | 7677 | 82.7 | 635 | 6.8 | 536 | 7.4 | 20 | 0.2 | 100 | 1.4 | 174 | 1.4 | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Gender | |||||||||||||||||
| Male | 5652 | 60.4 | 4345 | 53.9 | 542 | 86.6 | 481 | 94.9 | 20 | 100.0 | 100 | 100.0 | 149 | 88.2 | 15 | 100.0 | < 0.0001 |
| Female | 3506 | 39.6 | 3332 | 46.1 | 93 | 13.4 | 55 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Age | |||||||||||||||||
| 18–25 | 2016 | 19.0 | 1586 | 18.4 | 181 | 18.9 | 67 | 13.5 | 7 | 32.4 | 51 | 49.0 | 110 | 48.7 | 13 | 90.9 | < 0.0001 |
| 26–35 | 1680 | 21.0 | 1441 | 21.4 | 100 | 15.9 | 95 | 22.1 | 1 | 11.1 | 22 | 25.8 | 19 | 12.7 | 2 | 0.9 | |
| 36–50 | 2620 | 33.6 | 2284 | 34.1 | 139 | 29.4 | 155 | 37.2 | 4 | 30.7 | 15 | 17.8 | 23 | 24.6 | 0 | 0 | |
| 51–64 | 1808 | 19.4 | 1569 | 19.6 | 116 | 24.6 | 95 | 16.7 | 4 | 15.0 | 9 | 6.7 | 15 | 11.2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 65+ | 1034 | 7.0 | 797 | 6.4 | 99 | 11.2 | 124 | 10.4 | 4 | 10.7 | 3 | 0.6 | 7 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||||||||||||
| Mex-Am | 1372 | 6.2 | 1279 | 7.0 | 40 | 2.6 | 31 | 2.4 | 2 | 2.2 | 6 | 2.3 | 13 | 2.0 | 1 | 1.2 | < 0.0001 |
| Hispanic | 515 | 4.5 | 468 | 5.0 | 29 | 4.2 | 6 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | 10 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| NH White | 4587 | 71.7 | 3710 | 70.1 | 298 | 69.8 | 404 | 88.8 | 13 | 90.9 | 84 | 91.7 | 65 | 63.1 | 13 | 95.7 | |
| NH Black | 2253 | 12.4 | 1839 | 12.4 | 250 | 20.2 | 79 | 5.3 | 4 | 5.2 | 4 | 1.0 | 76 | 23.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other/Mix | 431 | 5.0 | 381 | 5.4 | 18 | 3.2 | 16 | 2.8 | 1 | 1.6 | 4 | 3.0 | 10 | 5.9 | 1 | 3.1 | |
| Education | |||||||||||||||||
| <HS | 3180 | 26.0 | 2774 | 27.6 | 129 | 13.6 | 170 | 20.6 | 8 | 23.8 | 25 | 16.9 | 69 | 32.2 | 5 | 24.1 | < 0.0001 |
| HS/GED | 2642 | 31.3 | 2196 | 31.1 | 187 | 28.8 | 165 | 34.9 | 6 | 46.3 | 38 | 38.6 | 41 | 26.4 | 9 | 68.9 | |
| >HS | 3262 | 42.7 | 2661 | 41.4 | 310 | 57.7 | 197 | 44.5 | 6 | 29.8 | 33 | 44.5 | 54 | 41.4 | 1 | 7.0 | |
Note: CIG=cigarettes only; NCC=non-cigarette combustibles only; NC=non-combustibles only; NCC&NC=dual non-cigarette combustibles and non-combustible; CIG&NC=dual cigarettes and non-combustibles; CIG&NCC=dual cigarettes and non-cigarette combustibles; POLY=poly-tobacco. Mex-Am=Mexican American; NH=non-Hispanic. HS=high school. Unweighted n and weight percentages are presented. P values are from chi-square tests.