Descriptive information of male smokers
| Male smokers (n=803) | Male imported cigarette smokers (n=437) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imported cigarette smokers (n=437) | Domestic cigarette smokers (n=355) | p Value† | Purchasing smuggled cigarettes (n=185) | Not purchasing smuggled cigarettes (n=245) | p Value† | |
| *p<0.05, two tailed test. | ||||||
| †χ2 test for categorical independent variables; t test for continuous independent variables. | ||||||
| Demographic factors | ||||||
| Age (years) | ||||||
| 18–34 | 51.72 | 23.94 | * | 56.22 | 48.57 | |
| 35–64 | 48.28 | 76.06 | 43.78 | 51.43 | ||
| Marital status | ||||||
| No | 41.42 | 22.54 | * | 44.32 | 39.59 | |
| Yes | 58.58 | 77.46 | 55.68 | 60.41 | ||
| Education | ||||||
| Preliminary or lower | 10.30 | 26.76 | * | 12.43 | 8.57 | |
| Junior high school | 24.03 | 25.92 | 18.92 | 28.16 | ||
| High school | 40.05 | 32.96 | 13.78 | 37.14 | ||
| Undergraduate or graduate | 25.63 | 14.08 | 24.86 | 26.12 | ||
| Missing | 0.00 | 0.28 | ||||
| Urbanisation | ||||||
| Metropolitan areas | 18.31 | 11.83 | * | 18.92 | 18.37 | |
| General counties | 59.04 | 57.75 | 55.68 | 61.22 | ||
| Rural areas | 22.65 | 30.42 | 25.41 | 20.41 | ||
| Employed | ||||||
| No | 13.73 | 19.44 | * | 10.81 | 16.33 | |
| Yes | 86.27 | 80.56 | 89.19 | 83.67 | ||
| Economic factors | ||||||
| Personal monthly income | ||||||
| <NT$20K | 19.68 | 28.73 | * | 17.30 | 21.63 | |
| NT$20–40K | 39.13 | 39.15 | 43.24 | 36.33 | ||
| ⩾NT$40K | 37.99 | 29.01 | 36.76 | 38.78 | ||
| Missing | 3.20 | 3.10 | 2.70 | 3.27 | ||
| Personal monthly income (in NT$; mean/std) | 40542/34802 | 30744/24709 | * | 43031/30188 | 38577/30188 | |
| Cigarette price per pack (in NT$; mean/std) | 45.78/9.80 | 25.62/2.56 | * | 47.2/12.9 | 44.53/6.14 | * |
| Smoking behaviour | ||||||
| Smoking >20 cigarettes daily | ||||||
| No | 84.21 | 81.97 | 83.24 | 84.90 | ||
| Yes | 12.81 | 17.46 | 12.97 | 12.65 | ||
| Missing | 2.97 | 0.56 | 3.78 | 2.45 | ||
| Monthly expenditure on smoking | ||||||
| NT$1–1000 | 35.70 | 66.48 | * | 27.03 | 41.63 | * |
| ⩾NT$1000 | 61.10 | 30.14 | 71.35 | 53.88 | ||
| Missing | 3.20 | 3.38 | 1.62 | 4.49 | ||
| Monthly expenditure on smoking ($NT; mean/std) | 1233.6/1297.2 | 808.8/563.9 | * | 1483.1/1756.3 | 1044.6/746.7 | * |
| Other factors | ||||||
| Attitude toward cigarette taxation | ||||||
| Favour | 29.75 | 25.92 | 22.16 | 35.92 | * | |
| No opinion | 23.57 | 28.17 | 26.49 | 20.82 | ||
| Oppose | 46.45 | 45.92 | 51.35 | 42.86 | ||
| Missing | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.41 | ||
| Betalnut chewer | ||||||
| No | 71.17 | 73.24 | 64.86 | 75.92 | * | |
| Yes | 27.00 | 23.66 | 33.51 | 22.04 | ||
| Missing | 1.83 | 3.10 | 1.62 | 2.04 | ||