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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2017 Sep;53(3 Suppl 1):S78–S85. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.03.026

Table 3.

Peer Crowd Affiliation and Current Smoking Among Bay Area Young Adults, 2014

Variable Logistic regression results, current smoker (imputed sample, n=1,344)

Model 1 Model 2


AOR (95% CI) SE AOR (95% CI) SE
Peer crowd affiliation

 Young professional (ref)

 Hipster 2.56 (0.98, 6.72) 1.26 2.12 (0.75, 6.01) 1.13

 Partier 2.34 (0.90, 6.06) 1.13 1.04 (0.40, 2.73) 0.51

 Hip Hop 5.58 (2.24, 13.88***) 2.59 4.42 (1.51, 12.98**) 2.43

 Homebody 1.57 (0.80, 3.10) 0.54 1.71 (0.82, 3.55) 0.64

 Country 3.55 (1.37, 9.19**) 1.72 3.06 (1.17, 7.99*) 1.50

Sociodemographic characteristics

 Age 0.99 (0.89, 1.12) 0.06 0.89 (0.78, 1.02) 0.06

 Male 1.67 (1.02, 2.73*) 0.42 1.10 (0.58, 2.12) 0.37

 Race/ethnicity

  NH white (ref)

  Hispanic/Latino 0.74 (0.39, 1.39) 0.24 0.55 (0.27, 1.09) 0.19

  NH black 0.75 (0.30, 1.87) 0.35 0.63 (0.19, 2.08) 0.38

  NH API 0.41 (0.21, 0.80**) 0.14 0.41 (0.19, 0.89*) 0.16

  NH other 0.59 (0.13, 2.64) 0.45 0.26 (0.03, 1.97) 0.27

 LGBT 1.07 (0.50, 2.30) 0.42 0.60 (0.21, 1.69) 0.32

 College 0.47 (0.27, 0.84*) 0.14 0.45 (0.24, 0.85*) 0.15

Tobacco attitudes and health status

 Perceived prevalence of smoking 1.77 (0.54, 5.77) 1.07

 Agrees that smoking reduces stress 1.59 (1.36, 1.86***) 0.13

 Anti-industry attitudes 0.76 (0.63, 0.91**) 0.07

 Attends bars sometimes/frequently 2.08 (0.98, 4.43) 0.80

 Binge drinking in past month 3.17 (1.59, 6.32***) 1.12

 Very good/excellent self-rated health 0.33 (0.18, 0.58***) 0.10

Note: Boldface indicates statistical significance (*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001).

API, Asian/Pacific Islander; LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender; NH, non-Hispanic.