Socioeconomic Differences in Tobacco Smoking in Italy: Is There an Interaction between Variables?

Table 1

Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of participants, year 2005.

		Current	Former	No smokers	Total
Total		21,92	21,84	56,24	100
Gender	Male	27,84	29,57	42,59	48,16
	Female	16,43	14,64	68,93	51,84
Age (years)	15–24	21,39	5,79	72,82	12,18
	25–34	27,82	14,84	57,34	17,06
	35–44	28,07	19,59	52,34	18,89
	45–54	28,28	26,32	45,4	15,3
	55–64	20,65	29,19	50,16	14,2
	65+	8,99	30,05	60,96	22,38
Educational level	University degree	20,14	21,51	58,35	9,26
	Upper secondary education	23,59	20,86	55,55	26,14
	Lower secondary education or professional school	26,45	20,77	52,78	37,65
	Primary education	14,6	24,37	61,03	26,95
Italian macroregion of residence	North-west	22,19	23,25	54,56	26,74
	North-east	21,38	24,95	53,67	19,01
	Centre	23,76	23,54	52,7	19,45
	South	20,77	17,6	61,63	23,56
	Islands	21,44	19,11	59,45	11,24
Chronic medical conditions	None	22,03	21,44	56,53	94,51
	One at least	20,03	28,68	51,29	5,49
Occupational status	Employed	29,37	22,3	48,33	46,7
	Unemployed, in search of first occupation	30,24	13,77	55,99	5,56
	Housewife, student	13,92	11,14	74,94	25,18
	Other	13,39	34,79	51,82	22,56
Marital status	Single	25,62	12	62,38	29,63
	Married	20,69	27,51	51,8	55,76
	Divorced, separated	34,41	21,36	44,23	5,38
	Widowed	10,21	19,37	70,42	9,22
Self-assessed health status	Very good/good	22,61	21,45	55,94	93,2
	Not good/poor	12,56	27,05	60,39	6,8
Self-assessed household income	Very good/adequate	24,26	18,62	57,12	60,89
	Scarce/absolutely insufficient	18,28	26,83	54,89	39,11