Table 4.
Symptoms caused by HNB tobacco aerosol produced by others
| Characteristics | Among total sample, n=8240 | Among those exposed to aerosol of HNB tobacco, n=977 | ||||
| Exposed to aerosol of HNB tobacco, n (%) | Sore throat, % | Eye pain, % | Feeling ill, % | Other injury or symptom, % | Any symptom, % | |
| Total | 977 (11.9) | 20.6 | 22.3 | 25.1 | 13.4 | 37.0 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Men | 582 (14.1) | 19.7 | 24.0 | 24.3 | 18.6 | 31.4 |
| Women | 395 (9.6) | 21.9 | 19.9 | 26.3 | 5.7 | 45.3 |
| Age groups, years* | ||||||
| 17–29 | 179 (10.6) | 27.9 | 37.3 | 39.7 | 14.5 | 56.3 |
| 30–39 | 310 (18.5) | 22.3 | 25.0 | 24.0 | 13.6 | 42.1 |
| 40–49 | 227 (12.0) | 22.4 | 22.3 | 25.1 | 11.0 | 28.8 |
| 50–59 | 169 (12.2) | 11.6 | 5.7 | 12.0 | 18.8 | 24.4 |
| 60–71 | 93 (5.8) | 13.0 | 14.9 | 24.8 | 6.6 | 26.1 |
| Combustible cigarette and HNB tobacco/e-cigarette use* | ||||||
| Never/never† | 294 (6.9) | 23.1 | 28.7 | 38.0 | 9.6 | 49.2 |
| At least one former and no current‡ | 272 (13.1) | 21.1 | 20.9 | 22.9 | 10.6 | 41.2 |
| At least one current§ | 412 (21.5) | 18.6 | 18.7 | 17.4 | 18.0 | 25.6 |
*Status in 2017.
†Never/never means persons who never smoke (combustible tobacco) and never use HNB tobacco/e-cigarette.
‡Former/former, former/never or never/former.
§Current/never, current/former, current/current, former/current or never/current.
HNB, heat-not-burn.