Research Article
Profile of Problems and Risk Factors Associated with Tobacco Consumption among Professional Drivers in Nigeria
Table 1
Sociodemographic and other characteristics of respondents.
| Variables | Total | % | Frequency | % | | Sig. |
| | | | Prevalence | | | | Age | | | | | | | ā<25 | 96 | 11.2 | 67 | 69.8 | 50.4 | 0.00 | ā25ā34 | 174 | 20.4 | 96 | 55.2 | | | ā35ā44 | 237 | 27.8 | 88 | 37.1 | | | ā45ā54 | 204 | 24.0 | 76 | 37.3 | | | ā55ā64 | 85 | 10.0 | 31 | 36.5 | | | ā>64 | 56 | 65.8 | 16 | 28.6 | | | Marital status | | | | | | | āMarried | 743 | 85.7 | 263 | 35.4 | 92.7 | 0.00 | āNot married | 108 | 14.3 | 91 | 84.3 | | | Ethnicity | | | | | | | āYoruba | 743 | 87.3 | 304 | 40.9 | 12.6 | <0.01 | āHausa | 12 | 1.4 | 11 | 91.7 | | | āIgbo | 79 | 9.3 | 32 | 40.5 | | | āOthers | 17 | 2.0 | 7 | 41.2 | | | Age of smoking initiation | | | | | | | ā<15 | ā | ā | 134 | 15.7 | NAa | NA | ā15ā20 | ā | ā | 687 | 80.7 | | | ā>20 | ā | ā | 30 | 3.6 | | | Introduction to smoking | | | | | | | āPeer | ā | ā | 78 | 9.2 | NA | NA | āDriver | ā | ā | 116 | 13.6 | | | āMotor park operative | ā | ā | 67 | 7.9 | | | āParent | ā | ā | 53 | 6.2 | | | āSibling | ā | ā | 40 | 4.7 | | | | Tobacco use | | Nicotine dependence | | | | Types | | | | | | | Cigarette | 90 | 10.6 | 34 | 37.8 | 12.5 | 0.01 | āPipe | 15 | 1.8 | 4 | 26.7 | | | āSnuff | 59 | 6.9 | 8 | 13.6 | | | āOral use (chewing) | 29 | 3.4 | 8 | 27.6 | | | āCigarette/pipe* | 46 | 5.4 | 10 | 21.7 | | | āCigarette/snuff* | 47 | 5.5 | 11 | 23.4 | | | āCigarette/oral(chewing)* | 44 | 5.2 | 9 | 20.5 | | | āPipe/snuff* | 11 | 1.3 | 2 | 18.2 | | | āPipe/oral(chewing)* | 4 | 0.5 | 1 | 25.0 | | | āSnuff/oral(chewing)* | 6 | 0.3 | 1 | 16.6 | | | āCigarette + any other 2* | 3 | 0.4 | 2 | 66.7 | | | Any nicotine | 354 | 41.6 | 158 | 18.6 | NA | NA |
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A: Not applicable, *all multiple use added together and collapsed into one during chi-square analysis.
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