Table 2.
Smoking characteristics of Black/African American women smokers by home smoking rule type (N = 191).
| Home smokefree rule for all smoked tobacco products |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Complete ban (n=50) 26.2% |
Partial ban (n=121) 63.4% |
No ban (n=20) 10.5% |
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| Smoking characteristics | % (n) or M (SD) |
% (n) or M (SD) |
% (n) or M (SD) |
% (n) or M (SD) |
|
| Current cigarette use (yes) | 77.5 (148) | 84.0 (42) | 75.0 (90) | 75.0 (15) | .43 |
| # of cigarettes smoked per day (Median, IQR) | 8.0 (10.0) | 7.5 (7.5) | 7.0 (10.0) | 10.0 (9.0) | .46 |
| # of days smoked cigarettes in past 30 days | 20.9 (10.3) | 18.8 (9.9) | 22.2 (10.3) | 18.6 (11.2) | .16 |
| Current LCC use (yes) | 39.5 (75) | 26.5 (13) | 41.3 (50) | 60.00 (12) | .0282 |
| # of LCCs smoked per day | 5.6 (6.0) | 8.0 (8.0) | 4.8 (5.5) | 6.8 (5.1) | .19 |
| # of days smoked LCCs in past 30 days | 12.0 (10.9) | 7.7 (9.5) | 13.4 (11.4) | 10.9 (9.2) | .22 |
| Current regular/premium cigar use (yes) | 25.7 (49) | 20.0 (10) | 23.1 (28) | 55.0 (11) | .0059 |
| Usually smoke menthol (yes) | 90.6 (135) | 90.5 (38) | 90.1 (82) | 93.3 (14) | 1.00 |
| Usually smoke menthol LCCs (yes) | 24.3 (18) | 30.8 (4) | 22.5 (11) | 25.0 (3) | .85 |
| # of cigarette smokers in home | .95 | ||||
| 1 Smoker (women caregiver only) | 63.2 (120) | 63.3 (31) | 60.8 (73) | 75.0 (15) | |
| 2 Smokers in home | 26.3 (50) | 24.5 (12) | 28.3 (34) | 20.0 (4) | |
| 3 Smokers in home | 7.9 (15) | 10.2 (5) | 7.5 (9) | 5.0 (1) | |
| ≥4 Smokers in home | 2.6 (5) | 2.0 (1) | 3.3 (4) | 0 (0) | |
| # of people who smoked in presence in past 7 days, Median (IQR) | 1.0 (1.0) | 1.00 (2.0) | 1.00 (1.0) | 2.00 (1.5) | .06 |
| Mean | 1.7 (1.9) | 1.3 (1.6) | 1.8 (2.0) | 2.15 (1.8) | |
| Current hookah use (yes) | 4.7 (9) | 2.0 (1) | 5.8 (7) | 5.0 (1) | .58 |
| Current e-cigarette use (yes) | 5.8 (11) | 6.0 (3) | 4.1 (5) | 15.0 (3) | .15 |
| Current IQOS use (yes) | 0.5 (1) | 0 (0) | 0.8 (1) | 0 (0) | 1.0 |
| Current pipe use (yes) | 0 (0) | - | - | - | |
| Current smokeless tobacco use (yes) | 2.1 (4) | 0 (0) | 2.5 (3) | 5.0 (1) | .27 |
| Time to first cigarette ≤ 5 min of waking | 50.3 (75) | 52.4 (22) | 48.4 (44) | 60.0 (9) | .68 |
| Ever tried to quit cigarettes (yes) | 53.7 (79) | 47.6 (20) | 58.9 (53) | 40.0 (6) | .26 |
| Past year cigarette quit attempt (yes) | 54.6 (42) | 65.0 (13) | 51.0 (26) | 50.0 (3) | .54 |
| # of past year cigarette quit attempts | .22 | ||||
| 1 | 42.9 (18) | 38.5 (5) | 42.3 (11) | 66.7 (2) | |
| 2-3 | 50.0 (21) | 53.9 (7) | 53.9 (14) | 0 (0) | |
| ≥4+ | 7.1 (3) | 7.7 (1) | 3.9 (1) | 33.3 (1) | |
| Intention to quit cigarettes in next 30 days | .0548 | ||||
| Yes | 17.2 (25) | 31.0 (13) | 11.4 (10) | 13.3 (2) | |
| No | 62.8 (91) | 57.1 (24) | 63.6 (56) | 73.3 (11) | |
| I don’t know | 20.0 (29) | 11.9 (5) | 25.0 (22) | 13.3 (2) | |
| Time to first LCC ≤ 5 min of waking | 29.7 (22) | 38.5 (5) | 22.5 (11) | 50.0 (6) | .13 |
| Ever tried to quit cigars (yes) | 22.8 (13) | 25.0 (3) | 28.1 (9) | 7.7 (1) | .45 |
| Past year cigar quit attempt (yes) | 23.1 (3) | 0 (0) | 22.2 (2) | 100.0 (1) | .16 |
Notes: Baseline data were collected among Black/African American women who smoke (cigarettes/little cigars and cigarillos) in Lee and Phillips counties from 2019-2022.
Comprehensive smoke-free rule is defined as, no one is allowed to smoke cigarettes, cigars, hookah, IQOS, pipes, and electronic cigarettes anywhere inside the home versus at least 1 tobacco product is allowed in some places/at some times or anywhere in the home.
M=mean, SD=standard deviation, IQR=interquartile range, LCC=little cigar or cigarillo P-values are reported for ANOVA, Wald χ2 or Fisher’s exact test.
*
<.05
**
<.01
***
<.001