Demographic and behavioural characteristics of never tobacco users; former tobacco users; and current single, dual and multiple tobacco product users
| Characteristic | Never | Former | Current | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single | Dual | Multiple | |||
| # (%) | # (%) | # (%) | # (%) | # (%) | |
| Total | 669 (42) | 479 (30) | 241 (15) | 112 (7) | 95 (6) |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 364 (37) | 282 (35) | 122 (19) | 40 (5) | 26 (3) |
| Male | 305 (32) | 197 (28) | 119 (19) | 72 (11) | 69 (10) |
| Age group, years | |||||
| 15–17 | 416 (44) | 208 (29) | 94 (14) | 51 (7) | 45 (6) |
| 18–20 | 161 (36) | 149 (31) | 81 (17) | 38 (8) | 33 (8) |
| 21–23 | 92 (24) | 122 (35) | 66 (26) | 23 (9) | 17 (6) |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 494 (34) | 345 (31) | 172 (18) | 86 (9) | 76 (8) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 44 (45) | 31 (30) | 19 (20) | 4 (4) | 2 (2) |
| Hispanic | 59 (29) | 53 (32) | 28 (22) | 15 (10) | 9 (7) |
| Non-Hispanic other | 72 (34) | 50 (34) | 22 (19) | 7 (7) | 8 (7) |
| Sensation seeking quartile | |||||
| 1st (lowest) | 320 (50) | 144 (28) | 61 (15) | 20 (5) | 13 (2) |
| 2nd | 186 (37) | 126 (34) | 59 (19) | 21 (4) | 15 (6) |
| 3rd | 108 (28) | 114 (33) | 52 (22) | 27 (10) | 27 (8) |
| 4th (highest) | 55 (13) | 95 (31) | 69 (25) | 44 (17) | 40 (13) |
| Friends smoke | |||||
| No | 255 (68) | 77 (24) | 18 (6) | 5 (1) | 2 (1) |
| Yes | 409 (26) | 400 (33) | 223 (23) | 107 (10) | 93 (8) |
| Parents smoke | |||||
| Never | 427 (46) | 222 (31) | 88 (11) | 40 (7) | 39 (5) |
| Former | 115 (26) | 111 (35) | 62 (23) | 28 (10) | 15 (6) |
| Current | 119 (25) | 134 (29) | 83 (29) | 40 (9) | 37 (9) |
| Maternal education | |||||
| Less than high school | 29 (17) | 33 (27) | 22 (35) | 9 (10) | 7 (10) |
| High school graduate | 103 (37) | 88 (26) | 44 (23) | 26 (11) | 15 (3) |
| At least some college | 499 (36) | 346 (34) | 162 (16) | 72 (7) | 69 (7) |
| Age first tried tobacco, years | |||||
| 10–14 | — (—) | 84 (36) | 57 (32) | 34 (17) | 41 (15) |
| 15–17 | — (—) | 183 (43) | 110 (34) | 51 (13) | 40 (11) |
| 18–24 | — (—) | 194 (64) | 70 (23) | 24 (9) | 11 (5) |
| First tobacco product flavoured | |||||
| Not flavoured | — (—) | 150 (38) | 80 (32) | 52 (18) | 44 (13) |
| Flavoured | — (—) | 221 (48) | 139 (31) | 52 (11) | 43 (10) |
| First tobacco product type | |||||
| Cigarette | — (—) | 263 (47) | 139 (30) | 70 (15) | 46 (8) |
| Other tobacco product | — (—) | 204 (49) | 99 (28) | 42 (9) | 49 (14) |
| First tobacco product combustible | |||||
| Not combustible | — (—) | 39 (42) | 11 (15) | 9 (12) | 18 (31) |
| Combustible | — (—) | 428 (48) | 227 (31) | 103 (13) | 77 (8) |
Combustible products: cigarettes, medium cigars or cigarillos, large or premium cigars, little filtered cigars and hookah. Non-combustible products: snuff, chewing tobacco, dip, snus, dissolvables and e-cigarettes.#, Count; %, weighted percentage; dual, current dual tobacco product users; former, former tobacco users; multiple, current multiple tobacco product users; never, never tobacco users; single, current single tobacco product users.