Household Smoking Restrictions, Time to First Cigarette and Tobacco Dependence
Table 1
Sample descriptive statistics.
Full smoking ban
Partial smoking ban
No smoking ban
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Age
33.7 (10.2)
35.1 (10.4)
34.5 (10.3
38.1 (11.7)
38.1 (11.1)
38.1 (11.2)
43.3 (11.3)
44.5 (12.5)
44.2 (12.1)
Education
15.4 (1.9)
15.9 (2.1)
15.6 (2.1)
15.2 (2.1)
15.3 (1.2)
15.3 (1.2)
14.7 (1.9)
14.6 (2.1)
14.6 ‡ (2.0)
Household income
64k (38k)
60k (43k)
62k (41k)
61k (42k)
54k (29k)
57k (36k)
45k (28k)
42k (30k)
43k ‡ (30k)
Underage children
1.2 (1.3)
.98 (1.2)
1.1 † (1.2)
.78 (.95)
1.1 (.94)
.93 (.95)
.76 (1.1)
.60 (.84)
.70 (.94)
Urges to smoke
4.86 (2.53)
5.60 (2.97)
5.28 (2.80)
6.41 (2.57)
6.53 (2.08)
6.50 (2.32)
6.77 (2.50)
6.25 (2.58)
6.44 (2.55)
No. of people in household
3.6 (1.5)
3.2 (1.4)
3.3 (1.5)
3.2 (1.5)
3.3 (1.1)
3.3 (1.3)
2.7 (1.6)
3.1 (1.8)
3.0 (1.7)
Cigarettes per day
14.7 (7.4)
14.5 (7.9)
14.6 (7.7)
18.8 (8.1)
16.2 (7.1)
17.5 (7.7)
21.3 (9.0)
18.0 (8.4)
19.1 (8.7)
Time to first cigarette
32.8 (23.1)
33.6 (32.3)
33.2 (23.1)
17.5 (21.2)
22.7 (27.1)
20.2 (24.5)
12.3 (14.2)
17.0 (22.9)
15.3 (20)
HONC score
6.6 (2.4)
7.4 (2.1)
7.1 (2.2)
7.2 (2.2)
7.7 (1.8)
7.4 (2.0)
7.0 (2.0)
7.6 (1.9)
7.4 (2.0)
Age started smoking
17.1 (4.1)
16.9 (4.4)
16.9 (4.3)
16.9 (4.8)
16.6 (3.7)
16.8 (4.3)
17.4 (6.5)
16.1 (4.8)
16.5 (5.5)
Race
White
87%
91.1%
89.3%
88.7%
88.1%
88.4%
82.8%
78.4%
80%
Black
8.7%
5.6%
6.9%
7.5%
6.8%
7.1%
13.8%
17.6%
16.3%
Other
4.3%
3.3%
3.8%
3.8%
5.1%
4.5%
3.4%
3.9%
3.8%
Hispanic
2.9%
2.2%
2.5%
1.9%
3.4%
2.7%
3.4%
2.0%
2.5%
Note: full smoking ban significantly different than partial smoking ban and no smoking ban groups, ;‡no smoking ban significantly different than full smoking band and partial smoking ban groups, ;†full smoking ban significantly different than the no smoking ban group, . Income rounded up for presentation in table format.
