Table 1.

Distribution of socio-demographic characteristics and prevalence of cigarette smoking by intersectional positions in the total sample, 2014–2015 U.S. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study (N = total unweighted N for Sexual minority and heterosexual).

		Total	Sexual minority adults (Unweighted N = 1933)		Heterosexual adults (Unweighted N = 25,965)		p-valuec
			<HSa	HS or moreb	<HS	HS or more
		Weighted %	Weighted %	Weighted %	Weighted %	Weighted %
		(unweighted N)	(unweighted N)	(unweighted N)	(unweighted N)	(unweighted N)
		100 (27,828)	0.8 (332)	4.0 (1597)	10.1 (3332)	85.1 (22,567)
Gender
Women		52.0 (14,296)	59.9 (221)	58.9 (1035)	48.5 (1508)	51.9 (11,262)	<0.001
Men		48.0 (14,001)	40.1 (108)	41.0 (560)	51.4 (1818)	48.1 (11,293)
Age
18–240		12.7 (8171)	22.2 (166)	25.5 (684)	11.6 (999)	12.3 (6,225)	<0.001
25–440		33.9 (9860)	49.8 (108)	44.3 (617)	26.2 (920)	34.3 (8,061)
45+		53.4 (10,288)	28.0 (58)	30.1 (296)	62.2 (1413)	53.4 (8277)
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white		65.8 (16,699)	22.1 (110)	63.3 (907)	44.0 (1,464)	69.3 (14,009)	<0.001
Hispanic		15.3 (5,031)	63.8 (145)	18.9 (326)	36.4 (974)	11.8 (3,429)
Non-Hispanic non-white		18.9 (6,140)	14.1 (70)	17.8 (346)	19.6 (794)	18.9 (4,828)
Smoking status
Current smokers		18.6 (9,694)	22.5 (132)	27.4 (636)	28.6 (1,551)	17.1 (7,224)	<0.001
Non-smokers		81.4 (18,629)	77.5 (200)	72.6 (961)	71.4 (1,781)	82.9 (15,343)

NOTE – The following variables had missing data. Individuals with missing data were excluded from analyses. Sexual orientation (1.4% missing); education (0.5% missing); smoking status 0.1% missing); gender (0.1% missing), race/ethnicity (4.0% missing).

^a<HS: with less than high school education;

^bHS or more: with high school education or more.

^cP values obtained using weighted chi-square test.