Table 1. Product Availability, Exterior Advertisement, Price Promotions, and Price, by Race/Ethnicity Zip Code Cluster (N = 673), Los Angeles, California, 2016–2017.
| Variables, Menthol Cigarette Retail Marketing | Race/Ethnicity Zip Code Cluster |
P Value, Group Differences | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American (n = 194) | Non-Hispanic White (n = 193) | Hispanic/Latino (n = 187) | Korean American (n = 99) | ||
| Availability, n (%) | |||||
| Cigarette, single pack | 188 (96.9) | 188 (97.4) | 187 (100.0) | 97 (98.0) | .14a |
| Menthol cigarette, single pack | 184 (94.8) | 183 (94.8) | 175 (93.6) | 94 (94.9) | .94a |
| Newport menthol cigarette, single pack | 186 (95.9) | 157 (81.3) | 155 (82.9) | 92 (92.9) | <.001a |
| Blu menthol disposable e-cigarette, single pack | 37 (19.1) | 63 (32.6) | 22 (11.8) | 18 (18.2) | <.001a |
| Advertisement, n (%) | |||||
| Exterior advertisement (nonmenthol cigarette) | 79 (40.7) | 85 (44.0) | 40 (21.4) | 33 (33.3) | <.001a |
| Exterior advertisement (menthol cigarette) | 83 (42.8) | 64 (33.2) | 29 (15.5) | 27 (27.3) | <.001a |
| Price promotion, n (%) | |||||
| Cigarette price promotion | 76 (39.2) | 92 (47.7) | 43 (23.0) | 24 (24.2) | <.001a |
| Menthol cigarette price promotion | 67 (34.5) | 84 (43.5) | 38 (20.3) | 21 (21.2) | <.001a |
| Price, $, mean (standard deviation) | |||||
| Cheapest cigarette, single pack | 5.43 (0.73) | 5.82 (0.93) | 5.81 (0.91) | 5.77 (0.77) | <.001b |
| Cheapest menthol cigarette, single pack | 4.68 (0.99) | 5.21 (1.16) | 5.16 (1.24) | 4.93 (1.03) | <.001b |
| Newport menthol cigarette, single pack | 6.19 (0.77) | 6.53 (0.85) | 6.55 (0.72) | 6.66 (0.64) | <.001b |
| Blu menthol disposable e-cigarette, single pack | 10.07 (2.01) | 10.47 (1.76) | 9.89 (0.84) | 9.09 (1.50) | .02b |
a
Calculated by using χ2 test.
b
Calculated by using 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).