Table A6.
8th gradersa |
10th gradersa |
12th gradersb |
|
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P-value | P-value | p-value | |
Smoking participation | |||
Gender | 0.131 | 0.874 | 0.689 |
Race/ethnicity | 0.339 | 0.462 | 0.007 |
Parental education | 0.702 | 0.062 | 0.083 |
College bound | – | – | 0.159 |
N | 92,922 | 88,628 | 81,082 |
First cigarette initiation | |||
Gender | 0.308 | 0.971 | 0.285 |
Race/ethnicity | 0.678 | 0.388 | 0.451 |
Parental education | 0.752 | 0.956 | 0.685 |
College bound | – | – | 0.594 |
N | 84,562 | 74,938 | 30,198 |
Daily smoking initiation | |||
Gender | 0.667 | 0.826 | 0.541 |
Race/ethnicity | 0.984 | 0.085 | 0.324 |
Parental education | 0.889 | 0.120 | 0.775 |
College bound | – | – | 0.815 |
N | 91,457 | 85,468 | 37,571 |
aRegression models estimating adjusted risk ratios controlled for gender, age, race/ethnicity, parents’ highest education, living arrangement, mother’s employment, high school program type, hours worked per week, weekly earnings from allowances or other sources, grade of smoking cigarette for first time, grade of starting daily smoking, having 5 or more drinks in a row over the past 2 weeks, marijuana use in the past 30 days, the year of survey administration, census region, cigarette taxes, workplace smoke-free policy coverage, restaurant and bar (hospitality) smoke-free policy coverage, percentage of individuals in state in poverty, percentage of individuals in state that are Black, percentage of individuals in state that are Hispanic or Latino.
b12th grade adjusted regression models controlled for all variables included in 8th and 10th grade models, as well as college plans.