TABLE 4.

Proportion of construction industry workers using tobacco, by occupation and tobacco product—2014–2016

	Estimated workersa	Cigaretteb smokers	Cigars, cigarillos, pipe, hookahc use	Smokelessd tobacco use	E-cigarettee use	Multiplef tobacco use (≥2 products)	Any tobacco useg
Construction occupations	Nx1000	% (95%CI)	% (95%CI)	% (95%CI)	% (95%CI)	% (95%CI)	% (95%CI)
Management	1347	18.4 (13.6–23.2)	12.0 (8.4–15.6)	5.7 (3.5–7.9)	5.7 (3.0–8.5)	6.7 (3.8–9.6)	32.8 (27.4–38.1)
Office & administrative support	503	17.5 (10.5–24.6)	-h	-	-	-	22.3 (14.6–30.0)
Supervisors, construction, & extraction	646	23.8 (15.8–31.7)	-	13.8 (8.0–19.6)	-	-	39.8 (31.4–48.2)
Construction trade	5960	27.2 (24.7–29.8)	8.0 (6.4−9.7)	8.0 (6.4–9.5)	4.3 (3.1–5.6)	8.7 (7.0–10.4)	36.5 (33.7−39.2)
Installation, maintenance, & repair	601	25.5 (17.7–33.3)	9.1 (4.6−13.5)	13.2 (7.4–19.0)	8.3 (3.0–13.6)	9.9 (4.5–15.0)	42.5 (34.0–51.0)
Production, transportation, warehousing	514	19.7 (14.3–25.1)	6.8 (1.7−11.9)	6.2 (2.5–9.7)	-	6.6 (2.5–10.8)	31.5 (21.8–41.1)
All other construction	637	23.4 (16.4–30.4)	9.4 (4.6–14.2)	-	-	-	28.3 (20.5–36.1)
Unknown/missing	9	-	-	-	-	-	-

CI, confidence interval.

^aWeighted to provide national annual average estimates for current employment.

^bCigarette smokers were defined as persons who reported smoking ≥100 cigarettes during their lifetime and who currently smoke every day or some days (n = 22.8 million).

^cOther combustible tobacco product users were defined as persons who reported smoking cigars, cigarillos, or little filtered cigars or smoking tobacco in a regular pipe, water pipe, or hookah at least once during their lifetime and who currently use every day or some days (n = 8.4 million).

^dSmokeless tobacco product users were defined as persons who reported using chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, snus, or dissolvable tobacco at least once during their lifetime and who currently use every day or some days (estimated n = 4.4 million).

^eE-cigarette users were defined as persons reported who reported using electronic cigarettes at least once during their lifetime and who currently use every day or some days (n = 5.2 million).

^fMultiple tobacco use was defined as current use of two or more individual tobacco products (n = 6.9 million).

^gAny tobacco product users were defined as persons who reported current use of cigarettes or other combustible tobacco or smokeless tobacco or e-cigarettes every day or some days (n = 32.7 million).

^hEstimate suppressed (relative standard error >30%).