Table 3.
Crude and AORs of the Correlation Between Past 30-day Menthol Cigarette Smoking With Smoking Harm Perceptions and Ease of Smoking Menthol Cigarettes (Among Past 30-day Youth Smokers)
| Variable | Menthol smoker, % (n=383) | Non-menthol smoker, % (n=250) | p-valuea | No/little harm from smoking vs some/a lot harm (ref) |
Menthol cigarettes easier to smoke than non-menthol cigarettes vs same/harder (ref) |
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| OR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | ||||
| Menthol smoker (past 30 days) | |||||||
| Yes | — | — | 1.27 (0.72, 2.22) | 1.36 (0.75, 2.48) | 1.97 (1.37, 2.84) | 2.12 (1.44, 3.10) | |
| No (ref) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Sex | 0.18 | ||||||
| Male | 49.7 | 56.0 | — | 1.54 (0.79, 3.03) | 0.71 (0.47,1.06) | ||
| Female (ref) | 50.3 | 44.0 | — | — | — | — | |
| Race/ethnicity | 0.13 | ||||||
| White (ref) | 65.4 | 68.6 | — | — | — | — | |
| Black | 10.3 | 5.7 | — | 1.45 (0.49, 4.31) | — | 0.50 (0.21,1.20) | |
| Hispanic | 17.6 | 17.3 | — | 1.18 (0.57, 2.46) | — | 1.28 (0.75, 2.19) | |
| Other | 6.7 | 8.4 | — | 1.45 (0.52, 4.08) | — | 0.76(0.33,1.77) | |
| Age at first cigarette, years | 0.52 | ||||||
| <12 | 18.4 | 15.5 | — | 0.98 (0.45, 2.11) | — | 0.68 (0.36,1.28) | |
| 12-14 | 49.0 | 53.1 | — | 1.08 (0.59,1.96) | — | 0.53 (0.32, 0.88) | |
| 15-17 (ref) | 32.7 | 31.4 | — | — | — | — | |
| Cigarettes per day (past 30 days) | 0.04 | ||||||
| 1-5 (ref) | 81.5 | 89.0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 6-10 | 11.6 | 6.1 | — | 0.76 (0.25, 2.32) | — | 0.78 (0.44,1.39) | |
| >10 | 6.9 | 5.0 | — | 1.73 (0.69, 4.32) | — | 0.72 (0.29,1.76) | |
Note: Boldface indicates statistical significance (p<0.05). Subjects missing in the denominator for each covariate are as follows: Menthol smoker: age at first cigarette n=1, past 30-day cigarette user n=11; Non-menthol smoker: past 30-day cigarette user n=20.
a
Menthol cigarette group differences were tested using Rao-Scott χ2.