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Research Article

Are Adolescent Cigarette Smokers Who Use Smokeless Tobacco More Likely to Continue Smoking in the Future than Cigarette-Only Smokers: Results from Waves I and II of the Adolescent Health Survey

Table 1

Demographic and other characteristics of current cigarette smokers^a by current smokeless tobacco use^b: Add Health Wave I.


Variable	No ST use mean/% (s.e.)	Sample size (N)	Current ST user Mean/% (s.e.)	Sample size (N)	P value

Age (mean years)	15.5 (0.1)	2847	15.7 (0.2)	480	.0961
Gender
Male	44.1% (1.6)	1249	81.8% (2.9)	401	<.0001
Female	55.9%(1.6)	1598	18.2% (2.9)	79	<.0001
Race/Ethnicity
NH-White	75.0% (2.6)	1834	79.5% (3.1)	362	.0862
NH-Black	8.5% (1.4)	287	4.4% (1.1)	26	.0002
Hispanic	10.2% (1.5)	436	9.6% (2.5)	54	.7682
NH-Other	6.4% (0.9)	281	6.6% (1.2)	37	.8848
Number of days smoked in past 30 days (mean)	16.3 (0.5)	2847	15.8 (0.7)	480	.5518
Number of Cigarettes/day:
<1 cig/day	4.1% (0.4)	112	2.8% (1.0)	12	.2274
1 cig/day	24.8% (1.4)	738	18.6% (2.3)	100	.0263
2–5 cigs/day	36.7% (1.3)	1076	40.0% (3.2)	190	.3119
6–10 cigs/day	13.3% (0.9)	403	15.2% (2.2)	72	.4226
11–20cigs/day	17.5% (1.3)	425	19.0% (2.2)	81	.5815
>20 cigs/day	3.7% (0.5)	87	4.4% (1.2)	21	.5041
Binge drinking^c
Binge drinker	55.1% (1.5)	1558	67.2% (2.9)	326	<.0001
Non-binge drinker	25.0% (1.2)	707	11.5% (1.7)	61	<.0001
Non-drinker	20.0% (1.1)	564	21.3% (2.5)	90	.5836
Future education Scale (mean)^d	3.8 (0.1)	2843	3.8 (0.1)	480	.3020
Depression scale (mean)^e	32.8 (0.2)	2847	31.3 (0.5)	480	.0077
Delinquency scale (mean)^f	21.9 (0.2)	2842	23.0 (0.5)	474	.0559

^aCurrent smokers were those who said they had smoked on at least 1 of the past 30 days. ^bCurrent ST users were those who used chewing tobacco or snuff on at least 1 of the past 30 days. ^cA binge drinker is one who drank five or more drinks in a row, at least once in the past year. A nonbinge drinker is one who drank at least once during the past year but did not drink five or more drinks in a row during the past year. ^dRespondents were asked “On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is low and 5 is high, how likely is it that you will go to college?” This is the average of the responses. ^eThe sum of the responses to 19 questions of the feelings scale. All questions had response values from 1 to 4 and respondents had to answer at least 15 of the questions. ^fThe sum of the responses to 15 questions of the delinquency scale. All questions had response values from 1 to 4 and respondents had to answer at least 12 of the questions.