Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics and Pairwise Comparisons across Groups on Perceived Negative Health Consequences of Cigarette Use

	Quitting benefits^**	Harm of 2nd hand smoke^*	Lung Cancer	Asthma, children^*	Asthma, adults^**
Mexican	0.14 (0.34)^a	0.89 (0.16)^a	0.74 (0.02)^a	0.83 (0.02)^a	0.76 (0.02)^a
Puerto Rican	0.23 (0.08)^a	0.68 (0.06)^bc	0.63 (0.06)^b	0.63 (0.07)^bc	0.66 (0.06)^bc
Cuban	0.53 (0.11)^b	0.75 (0.08)^c	0.72 (0.09)^ab	0.65 (0.10)^c	0.60 (0.09)^c
Dominican	0.13 (.10)^a	0.84 (0.05)^abc	0.79 (0.06)^a	0.79 (0.06)^abc	0.79 (0.06)^abc
χ²	10.38	21.83	7.04	16.66	9.39
p	.016	<.001	0.071	0.001	0.024

	Heart Disease	Colon Cancer^**	Crib Death^*	Diabetes, children^**	Diabetes, adults^*
Mexican	0.44 (0.03)	0.03 (0.03)^a	0.20 (0.03)^a	−0.22 (0.03)^a	−0.27 (0.03)^a
Puerto Rican	0.41 (0.07)	0.04 (0.08)^a	−0.01 (0.08)	−0.15 (0.07)^a	−0.08 (0.07)^bc
Cuban	0.53 (0.10)	0.37 (0.11)	0.37 (0.11)^a	0.08 (0.10)	0.11 (0.11)^c
Dominican	0.52 (0.08)	0.10 (0.09)^a	0.28 (0.08)^a	−0.21 (0.08)^a	−0.20 (0.08)^ab
χ²	2.31	8.93	13.77	10.60	17.94
p	0.510	0.030	0.003	0.014	<0.001

Note.

Significance at Bonferroni adjusted p < 0.005.

^**

Significant at p < 0.05. For items in which a significant effect of group was found, means not sharing the same superscript significantly differ from each other (Mann-Whitney U-tests, p < 0.05)