An Investigation of Cigarettes Smoking Behavior and Nicotine Dependence among Chinese Methamphetamine Users in Two Provinces

Table 2

Association between social-demographic characteristics and nicotine dependence among MA users.

	FTND
	LMD (≤5)		HD (>5)		𝜒^2	𝑃
	𝑛	%	𝑛	%
Gender					10.838	0.001
Male	137	50.6	134	49.4
Female	59	71.1	24	28.9
Education					0.076	0.995
Primary school or illiterate	28	56.0	22	44.0
Junior high school	98	55.4	79	44.6
Senior high school	48	54.5	40	45.5
College or above	20	57.1	15	42.9
Ethnicity					0.017	0.895
Han	169	53.5	147	46.5
Other	11	55.0	9	45.0
Marriage status^a					11.334	0.001
Unmarried	145	61.7	90	38.3
Married	52	43.0	69	57.0
Occupation					4.489	0.106
Unemployed	90	62.1	55	37.9
Private businessmen	57	50.9	55	49.1
Other	50	50.5	49	49.5
Age (years)	30.7 ± 7.5		31.9 ± 7.6		−1.560	0.120
Age of initial use (years)	27.8 ± 7.6		28.9 ± 7.9		−1.403	0.162

aUnmarried refers to being single or ever married but divorced or separated.