Table 1.
Background characteristics, RYO social factors and cognitions, and smoking heaviness and future intentions among past month cigarette users, by roll-your-own (RYO) status
| Smoke RYO cigarettes |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | No (n = 234) |
Yes (n = 199) |
t-test or chi-squared test |
| Background characteristics | |||
| Mean age | 21.7 (2.3) | 22.2 (2.1) | p = 0.01 |
| Cisgender/transgender male | 162 (69.8%) | 140 (75.5%) | p = 0.20 |
| Sexual orientation | p = 0.53 | ||
| Straight/heterosexual | 130 (70.3%) | 106 (73.3%) | |
| Bisexual | 55 (14.4%) | 55 (16.2%) | |
| Gay/lesbian | 32 (9.2%) | 23 (6.8%) | |
| Questioning/Asexual | 17 (6.1%) | 15 (3.8%) | |
| Race/ethnicity | p = 0.004 | ||
| White | 69 (26.1%) | 67 (35.4%) | |
| Black | 90 (35.9%) | 44 (23.1%) | |
| Hispanic | 48 (25.8%) | 47 (21.7%) | |
| Multiracial/other | 27 (12.2%) | 41 (19.8%) | |
| Mean income (in dollars) | 280.4 (340.5) | 254.4 (314.4) | p = 0.42 |
| Slept outdoors in past month | 173 (71.3%) | 162 (80.7%) | p = 0.03 |
| RYO social factors and cognitions | |||
| Riskiness of using RYO cigarettes a | 3.0 (1.0) | 2.8 (1.0) | p = 0.04 |
| Harm of RYOs relative to cigarettes | p = 0.15 | ||
| Less | 60 (24.8%) | 63 (33.4%) | |
| Same | 132 (57.0%) | 108 (51.2%) | |
| More | 42 (18.1%) | 28 (15.4%) | |
| Expense of RYOs relative to cigarettes | p = 0.51 | ||
| Less | 144 (59.7%) | 133 (63.4%) | |
| Same | 68 (30.5%) | 51 (29.9%) | |
| More | 22 (9.8%) | 15 (6.8%) | |
| Ease of getting RYOs relative to cigarettes | p = 0.62 | ||
| Less | 63 (27.0%) | 40 (23.2%) | |
| Same | 112 (49.6%) | 94 (50.5%) | |
| More | 59 (23.4%) | 65 (26.3%) | |
| How often around people who RYOs b | 2.8 (1.2) | 3.3 (0.9) | p <.0001 |
| Perceived prevalence of RYO use | 5.0 (2.9) | 5.6 (2.8) | p = 0.04 |
| Smoking heaviness and future intentions | |||
| Number of cigarettes smoked per day | 11.0 (14.1) | 12.7 (12.6) | p = 0.22 |
| Latency to 1st cigarette of day ≤ 30 minutes c | 125 (59.0%) | 113 (60.5%) | p = 0.78 |
| Withdrawal symptoms | 2.0 (0.9) | 2.2 (0.8) | p = 0.02 |
| Intentions to smoke cigarettes, next 6 months d | 2.6 (1.0) | 3.1 (0.9) | p <.0001 |
Note.
a
Scale: 1=not at all, 2=a little, 3=somewhat, 4=very;
b
scale: 1=never, 2=hardly ever, 3=sometimes, 4=often;
c
Results based on n=208 non-RYO smokers and n=188 RYO smokers who did not endorse the “I do not use this product” response option for the latency item.
d
scale: 1=definitely no, 2=probably no, 3=probably yes, 4=definitely yes.