Table 1.

Smoking Prevalence and Second-Hand Smoke Incursions across NYC Residents living in Low-Income, Subsidized Housing, New York City, 2018

	Overall (n=1030)	NYC Housing Authority Residents (n=559)	Comparison “Section 8” Residents (n=471)
	%	%	%	p-value
Demographic Characteristics
Children in home (under the age of 18)	37.8	37.4	38.3	0.768^a
Education Level (< High School)	22.7	24.3	20.7	0.031^a
Spanish Language	28.4	28.5	28.3	0.852^a
Self-Reported Cigarette Smoking Behaviors
Current smoker	15.5	15.7	15.2	0.829^a
Smokers in the home	10.4	9.9	11.0	0.573^a
Smoke-free policy in the home	73.5	74.6	72.2	0.368^a
Self-Reported Secondhand Smoke Incursions
Seeing smoke in common areas	67.4	77.3	55.6	<0.0001^a
Smelling cigarette smoke, past year	60.0	62.3	57.2	0.095^a

*p-values based on Chi-Square Test for Independence