Table 1.
Distribution of Study Sample and Prevalence of Current Tobacco Use by Year, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and Other Health-Risk Behaviors among US Adults ( N = 117 816)
| Study sample | Prevalence | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Column % | Cigarettes | Cigars | Chewing tobacco | Snuff | |||||
| Row % | P | Row % | P | Row % | P | Row % | P | |||
| All | 117 816 | 100.0 | 21.8 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.7 | ||||
| Year | <.001 | .194 | .238 | <.001 | ||||||
| 1998 | 31 740 | 23.9 | 24.1 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.8 | ||||
| 2000 | 31 097 | 24.0 | 23.3 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | ||||
| 2005 | 29 650 | 25.5 | 20.9 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 1.5 | ||||
| 2010 | 25 329 | 26.5 | 19.3 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 2.0 | ||||
| Sociodemographics | ||||||||||
| Gender | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Men | 51 358 | 48.0 | 24.3 | 4.6 | 2.3 | 3.3 | ||||
| Women | 66 458 | 52.0 | 19.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Age | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| 18–24 | 12 128 | 13.1 | 24.6 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 2.4 | ||||
| 25–44 | 46 143 | 38.8 | 25.2 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 2.3 | ||||
| 45–64 | 36 602 | 31.8 | 22.7 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 1.1 | ||||
| ≥65 | 22 943 | 16.4 | 9.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | ||||
| Race/ethnicity | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 75 847 | 72.3 | 23.0 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | ||||
| Hispanic | 20 255 | 11.9 | 16.2 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic black | 16 722 | 11.3 | 22.3 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic Asian | 3726 | 3.3 | 12.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic Others | 1266 | 1.1 | 29.4 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.9 | ||||
| Education | <.001 | .860 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Less than HS | 23 008 | 16.6 | 28.2 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 0.4 | ||||
| HS graduate | 33 418 | 29.0 | 27.8 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 2.2 | ||||
| Some college | 33 132 | 28.8 | 22.2 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 2.0 | ||||
| College graduate | 27 496 | 25.0 | 10.2 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 1.7 | ||||
| Unknown | 762 | 0.6 | 21.6 | … | 1.6 | … | 0.5 | … | 1.0 | … |
| Family income | <.001 | <.001 | .038 | <.001 | ||||||
| Poor | 15 180 | 9.6 | 30.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 1.7 | ||||
| Low | 19 495 | 14.5 | 27.3 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 1.9 | ||||
| Middle | 28 969 | 25.4 | 23.8 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 2.0 | ||||
| High | 31 883 | 31.6 | 16.2 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 1.6 | ||||
| Unknown | 22 289 | 18.9 | 20.0 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 1.1 | ||||
| Region | <.001 | .001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Northeast | 20 864 | 18.5 | 20.4 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | ||||
| Midwest | 27 181 | 24.8 | 24.4 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 1.9 | ||||
| South | 42 807 | 35.9 | 23.1 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 2.3 | ||||
| West | 26 964 | 20.8 | 17.8 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | ||||
| Other health-risk behaviors | ||||||||||
| Binge drinking status | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| No | 92 858 | 77.5 | 17.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.0 | ||||
| Yes | 22 602 | 20.5 | 37.1 | 5.8 | 2.5 | 4.1 | ||||
| Unknown | 2356 | 2.0 | 40.9 | … | 4.2 | … | 2.2 | … | 2.2 | … |
| Other tobacco use a | <.001 | |||||||||
| Not current users | 113 174 | 95.4 | 21.1 | … | … | … | ||||
| Current users | 4642 | 4.6 | 36.4 | … | … | … | ||||
| Cigarette smoking status | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | |||||||
| Current smokers | 25 866 | 21.8 | … | 5.2 | 1.5 | 2.2 | ||||
| Former smokers | 25 966 | 22.1 | … | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2.2 | ||||
| Never smokers | 65 984 | 56.1 | … | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.3 | ||||
HS = high school; N = unweighted sample size. All the percentages are estimated from the weighted analysis. P values are based on chi-square statistics from bivariate analyses. Ellipsis indicates not included in the bivariate analysis.
a Whether or not being a current cigar user, or current chewing tobacco user, or current snuff user.