Table 1.
Characteristics of bisexual and pansexual women enrolled in online survey via Prolific, stratified by race and ethnicity, 2021.
| White (non-Latina) N = 229 |
Black (non-Latina) N = 34 |
Latina N = 45 |
Other or Multiple N = 74 |
p-valuea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender (%) | 0.54 | |||||
| Cis-gender female | 96.5 | 94.1 | 100.0 | 94.6 | ||
| Transgender female | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.4 | ||
| Genderqueer/non-conforming | 0.4 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Non-binary | 1.8 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 4.1 | ||
| Income (self, %) | 0.84 | |||||
| <$20,000 | 56.8 | 67.7 | 60.0 | 62.2 | ||
| $20,000 to <$40,000 | 20.5 | 20.6 | 22.2 | 18.9 | ||
| ≥$40,000 | 22.7 | 11.8 | 17.8 | 18.9 | ||
| Student in high school or college (%) | 46.3 | 55.9 | 53.3 | 56.8 | 0.35 | |
| Age (mean [SD]) | 24.1 [3.5] | 23.6 [4.0] | 23.3 [3.6] | 22.6 [3.2] | 0.01 | |
| Received tobacco coupons in past year (%) | 25.9 | 21.9 | 19.1 | 11.8 | 0.09 | |
| Frequency of seeing tobacco advertisements… | ||||||
| …on the internet (%) | 0.10 | |||||
| Never/rarely | 67.3 | 70.6 | 48.9 | 63.5 | ||
| Sometimes/most of the time/always | 32.8 | 29.4 | 51.1 | 36.5 | ||
| …in magazines (%) | 0.45 | |||||
| Never/rarely | 71.6 | 79.4 | 71.1 | 79.7 | ||
| Sometimes/most of the time/always | 28.4 | 20.6 | 28.9 | 20.3 | ||
| …at convenience stores (%) | 0.31 | |||||
| Never/rarely | 14.9 | 11.8 | 20.0 | 23.0 | ||
| Sometimes/most of the time/always | 85.2 | 88.2 | 80.0 | 77.0 | ||
| Saw/heard advertisements for The Real Cost in past year (%) | 0.07 | |||||
| No | 38.0 | 55.9 | 53.3 | 51.4 | ||
| Yes | 39.7 | 38.2 | 33.3 | 35.1 | ||
| Not sure | 22.3 | 5.9 | 13.3 | 13.5 | ||
| Saw/heard advertisements for This Free Life in past year (%) | 0.67 | |||||
| No | 63.8 | 79.4 | 71.1 | 68.9 | ||
| Yes | 9.2 | 5.9 | 4.4 | 6.8 | ||
| Not sure | 27.1 | 14.7 | 24.4 | 24.3 | ||
| Cigarette smoking (%) | 0.03 | |||||
| Never smoker | 45.4 | 61.8 | 57.8 | 67.6 | ||
| Ever, not current smoker | 42.4 | 26.5 | 31.1 | 27.0 | ||
| Current smoker | 12.2 | 11.8 | 11.1 | 5.4 | ||
| E-cigarette use (%) | 0.03 | |||||
| Never user | 43.2 | 55.9 | 46.7 | 62.2 | ||
| Ever, not current user | 38.9 | 17.7 | 31.1 | 24.3 | ||
| Current user | 17.9 | 26.5 | 22.2 | 13.5 | ||
| Cigar smoking (%) | <0.001 | |||||
| Never smoker | 63.3 | 70.6 | 71.1 | 83.8 | ||
| Ever, not current smoker | 34.5 | 14.7 | 28.9 | 14.9 | ||
| Current smoker | 2.2 | 14.7 | 0.0 | 1.4 | ||
| Any tobacco useb(%) | 0.003 | |||||
| Never user | 28.4 | 44.1 | 31.1 | 48.7 | ||
| Ever, not current user | 47.6 | 17.7 | 42.2 | 35.1 | ||
| Current user | 24.0 | 38.2 | 26.7 | 16.2 |
a
P-values were calculated using chi-square or Fisher’s exact tests (categorical variables) and ANOVA (continuous variables).
b
Any tobacco use included use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, or hookah.