Table 1.
Participant and Smoking Characteristics by Race/Ethnicity, NHANES 1999–2012
| Men | Women | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Mexican American | White | Black | Mexican American | |
| N | 2185 (85.2) | 656 (7.0) | 806 (7.8) | 1522 (87.2) | 471 (8.2) | 390 (4.6) |
| Characteristics | ||||||
| Age, y | 55.5 (0.4) | 55.2 (0.6) | 46.2 (0.7) | 53.5 (0.4) | 55.4 (0.7) | 46.5 (0.8) |
| Education | ||||||
| <High school | 731 (14.3) | 185 (33.0) | 261 (62.1) | 343 (11.4) | 95 (30.1) | 153 (48.7) |
| High school | 506 (26.4) | 151 (27.1) | 203 (17.3) | 349 (23.2) | 84 (23.1) | 122 (21.9) |
| >High school | 1008 (59.3) | 275 (39.9) | 327 (20.5) | 774 (65.5) | 190 (46.8) | 273 (29.4) |
| Country of birth | ||||||
| US-born | 1848 (95.5) | 504 (88.4) | 637 (33.1) | 1316 (96.1) | 335 (98.2) | 484 (52.6) |
| Non-US born | 397 (4.5) | 107 (11.6) | 154 (66.9) | 150 (3.9) | 34 (1.8) | 64 (47.4) |
| Age at initiation, y | 17.2 (0.1) | 18.2 (0.2) | 16.9 (0.2) | 18.2 (0.1) | 19.2 (0.2) | 19.3 (0.3) |
| Age at cessation, y | 36.2 (0.3) | 38.6 (0.5) | 32.0 (0.5) | 36.0 (0.4) | 39.7 (0.6) | 32.8 (0.7) |
| Years of smoking, ya | 19.0 (0.3) | 20.4 (0.5) | 15.0 (0.5) | 17.7 (0.4) | 20.6 (0.6) | 13.5 (0.6) |
| Cigarettes per dayb | 23.0 (0.4) | 16.4 (0.5) | 12.2 (0.6) | 16.1 (0.4) | 14.2 (0.7) | 8.8 (0.6) |
NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Values represent N (weighted %) for categorical variables or means (standard errors) for continuous variables.
aYears of smoking is the age last smoked cigarettes regularly minus the age when started smoking regularly.
bCigarettes smoked per day at time of quitting.