Table 2.
Unadjusted associations between food security (FS) and smoking outcomes
Cross-sectional association between FS status and current smoking | Longitudinal fixed-effect model examining changes in FS and current smoking | Longitudinal tobit model examining FS status and smoking intensity | |
OR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | Relative difference (95% CI) | |
Current FS | |||
High FS | |||
Marginal FS | 1.64*** (1.26 to 2.14) | 1.49* (1.04 to 2.13) | 1.16*** (1.07 to 1.26) |
Low FS | 1.90*** (1.46 to 2.48) | 1.77** (1.17 to 2.67) | 1.22*** (1.11 to 1.33) |
Very low FS | 2.44*** (1.84 to 3.23) | 1.62* (1.01 to 2.58) | 1.17** (1.06 to 1.30) |
Observations | 2228 | 1766 | 11 674 |
No of Unique IDs | 2228 | 351 | 2553 |
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.