Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of participants in Sample (N=375)

Variable	M	SD	n	%
Age	34.47	20.44
Age of starting chewing	17.77	8.76
years of chewing	14.97	12.66
Gender
Female			185	49
Male			190	51
Education
Elementary school			2	.5
Middle school			13	3.5
High school			139	37.1
High school diploma			105	28.0
Some college			71	18.9
Associate’s degree			20	5.3
Bachelor’s degree			14	3.7
Master’s degree			9	2.4
Ethnicity
Chamorro			124	33.1
Chuukese			109	29.1
Palauan			76	20.3
Yapese			24	6.4
Carolinian			17	4.5
Others			25	6.7