Table 3.
Weighted mean values or weighted proportions and corresponding 95% confidence intervals; PATH Wave 4 adults; Current established daily or someday smokers who are not established users of non-combustible products by transgender identity.
| Non-Transgender (n = 8289) |
Transgender (n = 66) |
p-Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % or µ | LCL | UCL | % or µ | LCL | UCL | ||
| Age (years), µ | 44.42 | 43.95 | 44.88 | 40.57 | 36.39 | 44.76 | 0.0769 |
| Gender, % | 0.0813 | ||||||
| Male | 51.69 | 50.32 | 53.06 | 64.38 | 50.14 | 76.46 | |
| Female | 48.31 | 46.94 | 49.68 | 35.62 | 23.54 | 49.86 | |
| Educational attainment, % | 0.0130 | ||||||
| HS graduate/GED or less | 57.73 | 56.20 | 59.24 | 72.94 | 61.18 | 82.17 | |
| At least some college | 42.27 | 40.76 | 43.80 | 27.06 | 17.83 | 38.82 | |
| Smoking status, % | 0.5351 | ||||||
| Daily | 78.47 | 77.26 | 79.63 | 81.98 | 69.74 | 89.99 | |
| Somedays | 21.53 | 20.37 | 22.74 | 18.02 | 10.01 | 30.26 | |
| Harmfulness of cigarettes (0 to 4), µ | 2.94 | 2.92 | 2.97 | 2.76 | 2.44 | 3.08 | 0.2568 |
| Harmfulness of snus (0 to 4), µ | 2.85 | 2.83 | 2.88 | 3.08 | 2.80 | 3.36 | 0.1114 |
| Harmfulness of e-cigarettes (0 to 4), µ | 2.49 | 2.47 | 2.52 | 2.45 | 2.16 | 2.74 | 0.7713 |
| Harmfulness of nicotine (0 to 4), µ | 2.84 | 2.81 | 2.87 | 2.70 | 2.36 | 3.04 | 0.4443 |
| Harmfulness of nicotine in cigarettes (0 to 4), µ | 2.77 | 2.74 | 2.79 | 2.59 | 2.30 | 2.89 | 0.2457 |
| Harmfulness of nicotine in e-cigarettes (0 to 4), µ | 2.42 | 2.39 | 2.45 | 2.36 | 2.08 | 2.64 | 0.6753 |
| Harmfulness of nicotine in NRT (0 to 4), µ | 2.17 | 2.13 | 2.20 | 2.25 | 1.92 | 2.57 | 0.6211 |
| Harmfulness of LNC versus NNC cigarettes, % | |||||||
| Misperception: Less harmful/don’t know | 13.54 | 12.45 | 14.70 | 19.43 | 10.82 | 32.42 | 0.2266 |
| Addictiveness of LNC versus NNC cigarettes, % | |||||||
| Misperception: About the same/more addictive/don’t know | 86.79 | 85.75 | 87.77 | 79.67 | 68.46 | 87.62 | 0.0598 |
| Nicotine in cigarettes causes most of the cancer caused by smoking, % | |||||||
| Misperception: Definitely yes/probably yes/don’t know | 65.52 | 64.19 | 66.83 | 62.24 | 50.08 | 73.03 | 0.5554 |
| Nicotine causes people to use tobacco, % | |||||||
| Misperception: Definitely not/probably not/don’t know | 18.05 | 17.05 | 19.11 | 19.43 | 11.64 | 30.64 | 0.7639 |
| Harmfulness of snus versus cigarettes, % | |||||||
| Misperception: Same harm/more harm/don’t know | 93.94 | 93.38 | 94.46 | 90.20 | 78.16 | 95.95 | 0.3119 |
| Harmfulness of e-cigarettes versus cigarettes, % | |||||||
| Misperception: Same harm/more harm/don’t know | 81.21 | 80.24 | 82.15 | 86.04 | 75.60 | 92.46 | 0.2713 |
| Harmfulness of e-cigarettes versus NRT, % | |||||||
| Misperception: About the same/less harmful/don’t know | 77.93 | 76.91 | 78.92 | 67.25 | 53.67 | 78.45 | 0.0690 |
LCL: lower 95% confidence interval; UCL: upper 95% confidence interval; HS: High school; LNC: Low nicotine cigarettes; NNC: Normal nicotine cigarettes; NRT: nicotine replacement therapy.