Table 2:

Summary Statistics: Independent Variables

	Full Sample		Nonsmokers		Smokers
Variable	Mean	Std Dev	Mean	Std Dev	Mean	Std Dev
Male	0.435	0.496	0.398	0.490	0.530	0.499
Age	44.334	17.780	46.197	18.563	39.526	14.514
Education
No Education	0.020	0.142	0.023	0.150	0.014	0.118
Completed Primary	0.334	0.472	0.346	0.476	0.303	0.460
Completed Secondary	0.382	0.486	0.359	0.480	0.439	0.496
Completed University	0.264	0.441	0.272	0.445	0.243	0.429
Household Size	3.447	1.967	3.389	1.943	3.596	2.021
Employment
Employed	0.625	0.484	0.585	0.493	0.727	0.445
Unemployed	0.044	0.204	0.038	0.192	0.058	0.233
Out of Labor Force	0.331	0.471	0.377	0.485	0.215	0.411
Income
Nominal Income	1823.04	2130.76	1846.66	2153.76	1762.36	2069.37
Normalized Income*	0.000	1.000	0.002	1.001	−0.005	0.998
Income Missing	0.055	0.227	0.056	0.229	0.052	0.221
Health
Uninsured	0.316	0.465	0.287	0.453	0.391	0.488
Insurance Missing	0.025	0.156	0.023	0.149	0.030	0.171
Body Mass Index (BMI)	26.120	4.969	26.284	4.996	25.702	4.873
BMI Missing	0.072	0.258	0.077	0.267	0.059	0.235
Age of Smoking Initiation**	17.674	5.320	17.956	5.459	17.426	5.183
Initiation Age Missing	0.016	0.124	0.018	0.132	0.014	0.116
Full Ban	0.124	0.329	0.125	0.330	0.121	0.327
Partial Ban	0.374	0.484	0.380	0.485	0.359	0.480
Years since Full Ban***	2.637	2.430	2.682	2.440	2.517	2.400
Years since Partial Ban***	3.566	2.764	3.588	2.791	3.508	2.764
Samole Size	108,489		78,186		30,303

Note:

^*Income normalized using mean and standard deviation by year.

^**Age of initiation among current non-smokers who ever smoked.

^***Years since ban among those person-year observations which a provincial ban exists.