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 𝑁	%	Frequency	%	𝜒^2	Sig.
			Prevalence
Age
<25	96	11.2	67	69.8	50.4	0.00
25–34	174	20.4	96	55.2
35–44	237	27.8	88	37.1
45–54	204	24.0	76	37.3
55–64	85	10.0	31	36.5
>64	56	65.8	16	28.6
Marital status
Married	743	85.7	263	35.4	92.7	0.00
Not married	108	14.3	91	84.3
Ethnicity
Yoruba	743	87.3	304	40.9	12.6	<0.01
Hausa	12	1.4	11	91.7
Igbo	79	9.3	32	40.5
Others	17	2.0	7	41.2
Age of smoking initiation
<15	—	—	134	15.7	NA^a	NA
15–20	—	—	687	80.7
>20	—	—	30	3.6
Introduction to smoking
Peer	—	—	78	9.2	NA	NA
Driver	—	—	116	13.6
Motor park operative	—	—	67	7.9
Parent	—	—	53	6.2
Sibling	—	—	40	4.7
	Tobacco use		Nicotine dependence
Types
Cigarette	90	10.6	34	37.8	12.5	0.01
Pipe	15	1.8	4	26.7
Snuff	59	6.9	8	13.6
Oral use (chewing)	29	3.4	8	27.6
Cigarette/pipe*	46	5.4	10	21.7
Cigarette/snuff*	47	5.5	11	23.4
Cigarette/oral(chewing)*	44	5.2	9	20.5
Pipe/snuff*	11	1.3	2	18.2
Pipe/oral(chewing)*	4	0.5	1	25.0
Snuff/oral(chewing)*	6	0.3	1	16.6
Cigarette + any other 2*	3	0.4	2	66.7
Any nicotine	354	41.6	158	18.6	NA	NA

A: Not applicable, *all multiple use added together and collapsed into one during chi-square analysis.