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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 2014 Nov 21;42:119–125. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.11.011

Table 2.

Characteristics of the five latent classes and in the full sample, weighted.

Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5
Full sample



p value
LCC and hookah users (4%)
Nonusers open to smoking (3%)
Daily “smokers” (11%)
Nondaily, light “social smokers” (9%)
Nonusers closed to smoking (73%)
% % % % % %
Sociodemographics
Age 0.15
18–24 46 40 35 46 41 41
25–34 54 60 65 54 59 59
Gender <.001
Male 77 51 53 56 47 50
Female 23 49 47 44 53 50
Race/ethnicity 0.0001
White, non-Hispanic 67 40 74 51 59 60
Black, non-Hispanic   9 20 11 18 13 13
Other, non-Hispanic   4   8   4   9   8   7
Hispanic 19 32 12 22 20 20
Education <0.001
Less than high school   8 23 23 11 11 13
High school 23 26 39 32 26 28
Some college or greater 69 52 38 57 63 59
Response to warning label items
Have you heard about or seen new warning labels which include graphic pictures? 60 56 54 62 52 54 0.096
Do you think that new warning labels with graphic pictures would make you think about not smoking? 55 51 36 45 57 53 <0.001
Noncombustible tobacco use, past 30 days
E-cigarette use   8   0   5 11   0   2 <0.001
Chewing tobacco use   1   0   2   7   0   1 <0.001
Dip/snuff use 17   0   3 11   0   2 <0.001
Snus use   2   0   4   8   0   1 <0.001
Nicotine product use   0   0   3   8   0   1 <0.001

Source: Legacy Young Adult Cohort Study, Wave 2 (January 2012).