Social Inequality in Cigarette Consumption, Cigarette Dependence, and Intention to Quit among Norwegian Smokers

Table 2

Adjusted multinomial regression for education and income according to smoking status with never smoker as reference group. Relative risk ratio (RRR) and 95% confidence interval. Bivariate and adjusted models.

	Model 1: bivariate relationship; Never smoker = ref.		Model 2: adjusted for survey year, age, sex, and members of the household; Never smoker = ref.
	Current smoker	Former smoker	Current smoker	Former smoker
High education	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Medium education	2.59 (2.21, 3.06)^***	1.92 (1.63, 2.25)^***	2.53 (2.12, 3.02)^***	1.75 (1.47, 2.08)^***
Low education	5.66 (4.61, 6.95)^***	2.31 (1.84, 2.89)^***	5.37 (4.26, 6.77)^***	2.05 (1.59, 2.65)^***
High income	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Medium income	1.44 (1.22, 1.70)^***	1.44 (1.22, 1.71)^***	1.07 (0.89, 1.29)	1.16 (0.97, 1.40)
Low income	2.76 (2.12, 3.59)^***	1.17 (0.84, 1.64)	1.53 (1.14, 2.06)^**	0.84 (0.58, 1.21)

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