Epidemiology of Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Use among South Asian Immigrants in the Northeastern United States

Table 3

Country of origin and immigration status among South Asian adults in the US northeast overall and among ever and current cigarette smokers and smokeless tobacco users by gender, 2003–2006/7 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey.

	Overall	Ever smoker	Current smoker	Ever SLT	Current SLT
Males
1st gen American of South Asian descent	8.4	10.6	6.0	1.3	0.0
India	70.0	66.1	57.8	90.8	85.9
Pakistan	9.6	10.7	23.4	7.9	14.1
Bangladesh	12.0	12.5	12.9	0.0	0.0
Females
1st gen American of South Asian descent	17.6	46.6	50.0	31.2	No current use
India	65.6	43.9	34.4	68.8
Pakistan	11.1	9.5	15.5	0.0
Bangladesh	5.6	0.0	0.0	0.0