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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2015 Apr 24;77:35–40. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.04.011

Table 2.

Cigarette smoking and exposure to HCSB by Hispanic/Latino groupa

Characteristic Overall
(n=13231)
Dominican
(n=1191)
Central
American
(n=1412)
Cuban
(n=1847)
Mexican
(n=5643)
Puerto
Rican
(n=2237)
South
American
(n=901)
P-valueb
Cigarette Smoking
  Never 61.7 76.8 71.5 53.7 64 50.3 65.9 <.001
(60.3,63.0) (73.2,80.3) (68.1,74.8) (50.5,56.9) (61.7,66.3) (47.1,53.4) (61.7,70.1)
  Former 17.7 11.8 14.3 20 18.2 17 22.4 <.001
(16.7,18.6) (9.4,14.2) (12.2,16.4) (17.8,22.2) (16.5,19.9) (14.3,19.7) (19.0,25.8)
  Current 20.7 11 14.3 26.3 17.8 32.7 11.7 <.001
(19.5,21.9) (8.1,14.8).4 (11.5,17.0) (23.5,29.0) (15.9,19.6) (29.9,35.6) (9.0,14.3)
  Cigarette Pack/Year 5.1 3 2.8 11 2.4 7.8 3.7 <.001
(4.7,5.6) (2.4,3.7) (2.3,3.3) (9.7,12.2) (2.2,2.7) (7.0,8.7) (2.6,4.7)
HCSB Exposure
  None 36.3 39.7 45.1 21.8 42.7 29.1 42.6 <.001
(34.7,37.8) (35.3,44.1) (41.6,48.6) (19.4,24.2) (40.4,44.9) (26.0,32.2) (38.6,46.6)
  <13 years old 9.9 14.2 9.9 9.1 9.5 9.3 10.1 <.01
(9.1,10.7) (11.8,16.7) (8.0,11.7) (7.0,11.2) (8.2,10.7) (7.6,10.9) (7.1,13.2)
  ≥13 years old 12.9 8.3 14.9 9.4 14.6 13.8 15.4 <.001
(11.9,13.9) (6.2,10.3) (12.8,17.0) (7.9,11.0) (12.7,16.5) (11.7,16.0) (12.3,18.5)
  < and ≥13 years old 40.9 37.8 30.2 59.6 33.3 47.8 31.9 <.001
(39.3,42.6) (33.8,41.9) (27.2,33.1) (56.4,62.9) (31.3,35.3) (44.2,51.3) (28.0,35.7)
Maternal Smoking (Yes) 23.1 26 15.8 35.9 15.3 30.6 19.1 <.001
(21.8,24.4) (22.5,29.6) (13.3,18.2) (33.0,38.7) (13.7,16.9) (27.6,33.7) (15.7,22.5)
Current Number of Household Smokers
  None 79.7 83.7 83.2 77.8 81.3 72.3 84.4 <.001
(78.3,81.1) (79.5,87.9) (80.4,86.1) (75.3,80.2) (79.0,83.6) (69.4,75.3) (80.7,88.1)
  One or More 20.3 16.3 16.8 22.2 18.7 27.7 15.6 <.001
(18.9,21.7) (12.1,20.5) (13.9,19.6) (19.8,24.7) (16.4,21.0) (24.7,30.6) (11.9,19.3)

Study location/time: Chicago, spring 2014.

a

Percentages and (standard error). Values are weighted for study design and non-response.

b

P-values for group comparisons were calculated using χ2 tests for categorical variables, and F-tests for continuous variables.