Table 1:
All Provinces |
No ban in province/year |
Ban in province/year |
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Variable | Sample Size | Mean | Std Dev | Mean | Std Dev | Mean | Std Dev | |
Smoking Prevalence | ||||||||
Ever Smoker | P(St > 0) | 108,489 | 0.524 | 0.499 | 0.533 | 0.499 | 0.515 | 0.500 |
Current Smoker | P(Ct > 0) | 108,489 | 0.279 | 0.449 | 0.289 | 0.453 | 0.269 | 0.444 |
Current Smoker if Ever Smoked | P(Ct > 0 | St > 0) | 56,882 | 0.533 | 0.499 | 0.542 | 0.498 | 0.523 | 0.499 |
Smoking Regularity | ||||||||
Nonsmoker | P(Rt = 0) | 0.716 | 0.705 | 0.727 | ||||
Occasional Smoker | P(Rt = 1) | 108,489 | 0.080 | 0.089 | 0.071 | |||
Everyday Smoker | P(Rt = 2) | 0.204 | 0.206 | 0.203 | ||||
Quantity of Cigarettes Smoked per day* | ||||||||
if a Current Smoker | Ct | Ct > 0 | 30,289 | 10.647 | 9.963 | 10.131 | 9.592 | 11.206 | 10.322 |
if an Occasional Smoker | Ct | Rt = 1 | 8,379 | 4.211 | 5.705 | 4.162 | 5.813 | 4.273 | 5.566 |
if an Everyday Smoker | Ct | Rt = 2 | 21,910 | 13.112 | 10.143 | 12.644 | 9.757 | 13.591 | 10.504 |
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure | ||||||||
Regularly Exposed | P(Ot = 1) | 108,489 | 0.469 | 0.499 | 0.495 | 0.500 | 0.443 | 0.497 |
Regularly Exposed if a Nonsmoker | P(Ot = 1 | Ct = 0) | 78,186 | 0.384 | 0.486 | 0.409 | 0.492 | 0.359 | 0.480 |
Notes: Column 2 denotes the form of the dependent variable in the estimating equation (Section 3). Column 3 specifies the size of the sample used in estimation (Section 5).
We drop 14 individuals who report being a current smoker but do not report quantity smoked.