County Smoke-Free Laws and Asthma Discharges: Evidence from 17 US States

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for continuous study variables (county level data).

Variable	Mean	Standard deviation	Minimum	Maximum
Dependent variables
Adult asthma rate	13.95	7.52	0	88.93
Adult appendicitis rate	2.26	2.45	0	181.82
Independent variables
Cigarette tax	.82	.63	.03	2.58
Smoking prevalence	21.84	4.61	9.80	32.60
Asthma prevalence	8.24	1.73	6.10	40.50
Percent in poverty	13.70	5.73	0	43.80
Percent uninsured	15.73	4.96	5.48	39.50
PCP per 10,000	6.33	4.15	0	31.40
Percent nonwhite	11.00	14.00	0	86.00