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Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2018 Jul 9;63(4):413–420. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.04.011

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics and tobacco use prevalence of the entire sample of PATH, TATAMS, and M-PACT youth and young adults at wave 1

PATH (Ages 12 to <17)
n = 11,539d
(N = 20,754,826)
PATH (Ages 18–24)
n = 9,112
(N = 30,706,753)
TATAMS (Ages 11 to <17)
n = 3,830
(N = 452,449)
M-PACT (Ages 18–24)

n = 5,073
Mean age (standard error) 14.0 (.00015)d
(N) %
21.1 (.03)c
n (N) %
13.4 (.17)
n (N) %
20.0 (.02)
n %
Sex
 Female 5,616(10,098,250) 48.6d 4,496(15,272,700) 49.7e 2,147(221,310) 48.9 3,227 63.6
 Male 5,923(10,656,575) 51.4d 4,614(15,434,053) 50.3e 1,683(231,139) 51.1 1,843 36.4
Race/ethnicity
 White 5,539(11,280,395) 54.4d 4,712(16,842,509) 54.9e 1,201(97,816) 21.6 1,785 35.2
 Hispanic 2,454(3,384,235) 16.3d 1,575(4,736,149) 15.4e 1,466(247,768) 54.8 1,593 31.4
 Black/African-American 1,777(3,162,062) 15.2d 1,529(4,487,878) 14.6e 608(77,304) 17.1 408 8.0
 Asian 348(1,002,007) 4.8d 1,294(4,640,217) 15.1e 555(29,561) 6.5 902 17.8
 Othera 1,421(1,926,126) 9.3d 385 7.6
Any Tobacco product useb
 Ever use 2,043(3,623,622) 17.5d 7,277(20,318,527) 66.5e 813(109,100) 24.1 3,355 66.1
 Current use 920(1,632,810) 7.9d 4,706(11,840,597) 39.0e 309(46,343) 10.3 1,788 35.3
Cigarettes
 Ever use 1,227(2,158,164) 10.4d 5,963(16,339,145) 53.2e 329(48,199) 10.7 2,337 46.1
 Current use 378(655,138) 3.2d 3,593(8,839,176) 28.8e 85(15,853) 3.5 1,010 19.9
E-cigarette use
 Ever use 998(1,778,388) 8.6d 3,887(9,834,710) 32.1e 661(87,056) 19.2 2,396 47.2
 Current use 274(494,047) 2.4d 1,516(3,818,883) 12.5e 249(33,657) 7.5 848 16.7
Cigars
 Ever use 571(992,549) 4.9d 5,092(13,760,119) 45.4e 189(26,773) 5.9 1,723 34.0
 Current use 174(294,601) 1.5d 1,933(4,737,429) 15.7e 63(8,634) 1.9 479 9.2
Hookah
 Ever use 612(1,098,915) 5.3d 5,061(13,621,120) 44.4e 195(27,471) 6.1 2,721 53.6
 Current use 130(229,804) 1.7d 1,261(3,295,066) 10.7e 64(10,722) 2.4 865 17.1

M-PACT = Marketing and Promotions Across Colleges in Texas; PATH = Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study; TATAMS = Texas Adolescent Tobacco and Marketing Surveillance System.

a

Other (TATAMS and PATH Young Adults) includes Asian, other, and multiple race/ethnicity.

b

Any product use includes cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah.

c

PATH restricted file received disclosure to publish: May 19, 2017. United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Tobacco Products. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [United States] Restricted-Use Files. ICPSR36231-v13. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], June 19, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36231.v13.

d

PATH restricted file received disclosure to publish: January 18, 2018. United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Tobacco Products. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [United States] Restricted-Use Files. ICPSR36231-v13. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], June 19, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36231.v13.

e

PATH public file: United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Tobacco Products. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [United States] Public-Use Files. ICPSR36498-v6. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], June 14, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36498.v6.