Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics and Tobacco-Use Behavior Patterns of Current Cigarette Smokers in the National Health Interview Survey, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2010
| Characteristic | Tobacco-Use Behavior | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never Tobacco Use (n = 83,972) | Exclusive Cigarette Usea (n = 32,038) | Dual Use With Cigars or Pipeb (n = 1,291) | Dual Use With Smokeless Tobaccoc (n = 612) | Poly-Use With Cigars/Pipe and Smokeless Tobacco (n = 231) | ||||||
| % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | |
| Demographic characteristics | ||||||||||
| Age, yearsd | 40.4 (28.8–55.4) | 39.9 (29.9–51.2) | 42.6 (31.3–52.7) | 29.8 (23.6–39.5) | 34.6 (25.0–46.1) | |||||
| Sexe | ||||||||||
| Male | 38.4 | 38.0, 38.9 | 43.0 | 42.2, 43.7 | 89.4 | 87.3, 91.2 | 96.8 | 95.2, 97.9 | 97.5 | 92.8, 99.2 |
| Female | 61.6 | 61.2, 62.0 | 57.0 | 56.3, 57.8 | 10.6 | 8.8, 12.7 | 3.2 | 2.1, 4.8 | 2.5 | 0.8, 7.2 |
| Race/ethnicitye | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 67.6 | 67.0, 68.3 | 74.9 | 74.0, 75.7 | 74.8 | 71.8, 77.6 | 89.1 | 85.5, 91.8 | 87.7 | 81.9, 91.8 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 12.9 | 12.5, 13.4 | 12.8 | 12.2, 13.5 | 12.9 | 11.0, 15.1 | 5.9 | 3.9, 8.9 | 3.9 | 1.9, 7.8 |
| Hispanic | 13.9 | 13.4, 14.4 | 8.9 | 8.4, 9.4 | 10.1 | 8.2, 12.2 | 3.4 | 2.2, 5.2 | 4.5 | 1.9, 10.4 |
| Other | 5.4 | 5.1, 5.7 | 3.3 | 3.0, 3.7 | 2.3 | 1.4, 3.8 | 1.6 | 0.8, 3.2 | 3.9 | 2.1, 7.3 |
| Educatione | ||||||||||
| Less than high school | 15.8 | 15.4, 16.2 | 23.0 | 22.4, 23.7 | 24.2 | 21.2, 27.4 | 25.8 | 20.9, 31.5 | 33.8 | 26.9, 41.6 |
| High school | 28.3 | 27.9, 28.8 | 39.4 | 38.7, 40.2 | 36.2 | 32.7, 39.7 | 39.0 | 34.4, 43.9 | 36.2 | 29.4, 43.7 |
| More than high school | 55.4 | 54.9, 56.0 | 37.1 | 36.4, 37.9 | 39.4 | 36.2, 42.6 | 35.1 | 30.2, 40.4 | 29.4 | 23.0, 36.8 |
| Cigarette-use pattern | ||||||||||
| Age (years) at starting to smoke cigarettes regularlyd,f,g | 17 (15–20) | 16 (14–18) | 17 (15–19) | 16 (13–18) | ||||||
| Frequency of cigarette usee | ||||||||||
| Daily | 81.4 | 80.8, 82.0 | 79.3 | 76.0, 82.3 | 74.4 | 70.0, 78.4 | 78.3 | 70.7, 84.4 | ||
| Nondaily | 18.6 | 18.1, 19.3 | 20.7 | 17.7, 24.0 | 25.6 | 21.6, 24.0 | 21.7 | 15.6, 29.3 | ||
| No. of cigarettes smoked in past 30 daysd,f | 450 (300–600) | 600 (300–600) | 510 (210–600) | 600 (300–900) | ||||||
| Frequency of noncigarette tobacco usee | ||||||||||
| Daily | 16.1 | 13.3, 19.1 | 33.2 | 28.5, 38.3 | 28.5 | 21.7, 36.6 | ||||
| Nondaily | 83.9 | 81.0, 86.4 | 66.8 | 61.7, 71.5 | 71.5 | 63.5, 78.3 | ||||
Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval.
a Never used any other form of tobacco (cigar, pipe, chewing tobacco, or snuff).
b Never used smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco and snuff). The 2010 survey did not assess pipe use.
c Chewing tobacco or snuff. Never used a pipe or cigars.
d Values are expressed as weighted median (interquartile range).
e Values are expressed as weighted percentage. Percentages include missing values.
f Results were based on the public-use files of the corresponding National Health Interview Surveys instead of the restricted-use files.
g Data were not collected in the 1991 survey.