Table 3.
Tobacco and Nicotine Use Among “Never Smokers” (N = 17 179) Within the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study
| aAny tobacco/nicotine | bAny combustible tobacco | Cigarettes | e-Cigarettes | Cigars | Hookah | Pipes | Smokeless | Snus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever tried | |||||||||
| Raw n | 11 233 | 10 500 | 7996 | 5324 | 6151 | 5378 | 1464 | 1844 | 837 |
| Weighted % | 66.7 | 62.4 | 46.3 | 31.1 | 36.1 | 31.7 | 8.7 | 10.7 | 5.0 |
| (95% CI) | (65.7, 67.8) | (61.3 to 63.5) | (45.1 to 47.5) | (30.0 to 32.1) | (34.8 to 37.4) | (30.7 to 32.8) | (8.0 to 9.5) | (10.0 to 11.5) | (4.4 to 5.6) |
| Used in past 30 days | |||||||||
| Raw n | 3861 | 2921 | 1545 | 1296 | 1578 | 648 | 153 | 601 | 207 |
| Weighted % | 22.0 | 16.6 | 8.5 | 7.4 | 8.9 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 1.2 |
| (95% CI) | (20.1 to 23.1) | (15.6 to 17.6) | (7.7 to 9.3) | (6.8 to 8.1) | (8.3 to 9.7) | (3.5 to 4.3) | (0.6 to 1.2) | (2.9 to 3.8) | (1.0 to 1.4) |
| c Current experimental use (ie, every day use or some day use but never regular use) | |||||||||
| Raw n | 1067 | 923 | 971 | 312 | 463 | 225 | 58 | 62 | 53 |
| Weighted % | 5.7 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| (95% CI) | (5.2 to 6.3) | (4.4 to 5.4) | (4.7 to 5.9) | (1.6 to 2.3) | (2.1 to 2.9) | (1.0 to 1.6) | (0.2 to 0.6) | (0.3 to 0.6) | (0.2 to 0.5) |
| Ever established regular use | |||||||||
| Raw n | 3053 | 1997 | e | 940 | 1211 | 883 | 265 | 747 | 235 |
| Weighted % | 22.8 | 15.0 | e | 5.3 | 7.1 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 1.6 |
| (95% CI) | (21.7 to 23.9) | (14.1 to 15.9) | (4.8 to 5.8) | (6.6 to 7.8) | (4.9 to 5.8) | (1.3 to 1.9) | (3.9 to 4.9) | (1.33 to 2.0) | |
| d Former established regular use | |||||||||
| Raw n | 1467 | 1140 | e | 518 | 590 | 607 | 194 | 268 | 127 |
| Weighted % | 11.0 | 8.5 | e | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.9 |
| (95% CI) | (10.2 to 11.9) | (7.8 to 9.2) | (2.6 to 3.4) | (3.0 to 3.8) | (3.3 to 4.1) | (1.0 to 1.5) | (1.3 to 2.0) | (0.7 to 1.3) | |
| Current established regular use | |||||||||
| Raw n | 1478 | 737 | e | 391 | 499 | 252 | 60 | 471 | 100 |
| Weighted % | 8.6 | 4.5 | e | 2.1 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 0.6 |
| (95% CI) | (7.9 to 9.4) | (4.0 to 5.1) | (1.8 to 2.5) | (2.7 to 3.5) | (1.3 to 1.9) | (0.2 to 0.5) | (2.3 to 3.1) | (0.4 to 0.8) | |
| Current established every day use | |||||||||
| Raw n | 586 | 104 | e | 146 | 89 | 15 | 13 | 336 | 49 |
| Weighted % | 3.3 | 0.6 | e | 0.8 | 0.5 | f | f | 1.9 | 0.3 |
| (95% CI) | (2.9 to 3.8) | (0.5 to 0.8) | (0.7 to 1.0) | (0.4 to 0.7) | (1.6 to 2.2) | (0.2 to 0.4) |
Regular use = endorsed smoking/using “fairly regularly.” Categories are not mutually exclusive (see Figure 1 and Supplementary Figure 1). See Supplementary Table 2 for tobacco use among adults who reported ≥100 cigarettes in their lifetime (ie, “ever” cigarette smokers). The terms used in this table represent PATH Study-derived variables and are defined in Table 1.
aAny tobacco/nicotine includes use of cigarette and non-cigarette tobacco products and e-cigarettes for the Ever tried, Used in past 30 days, and Current experimental use categories but only includes use of non-cigarette tobacco products and e-cigarettes for the Ever established regular use, Former established regular use, Current established regular use, and Current established every day use categories.
bAny combustible tobacco includes use of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and hookah for the Ever tried, Used in past 30 days, and Current experimental use categories but only includes use of cigars, pipes, and hookah for the Ever established regular use, Former established regular use, Current established regular use, and Current established every day use categories.
c Current experimental use refers to every day or some day use the past 30 days and excludes tobacco or nicotine users who were Ever established regular users. In the Any tobacco/nicotine and Any combustible tobacco categories, respondents who were an Ever established regular user of one tobacco product and a Current experimental user of another product were included as Established regular users and excluded from the Current experimental Any tobacco/nicotine and Any combustible tobacco use categories. Thus, there are fewer current Experimental Any combustible tobacco smokers than Cigarette smokers because some Cigarette smokers were also Established regular users of another combustible tobacco product and so were classified as Ever established regular users within the Any combustible tobacco column.
dNote that Former established regular use in the Any tobacco/nicotine category excludes respondents who are former regular users of one product and current users of a different tobacco product. Respondents who are former regular users of one product and current users of a different tobacco product are categorized as Current established regular users of any tobacco/nicotine.
eExcluded because this analysis is limited to never established regular cigarette smokers (<100 lifetime cigarettes).
fOmitted due to small sample size. Estimates were considered statistically unreliable and thus findings were omitted when the denominator was less than 50 or the relative standard error (RSE) was greater than 30%.27
“Never smoker” = Reported smoking <100 cigarettes in lifetime.