Independent correlates of perceptions of being a smoker at graduation among Navy recruit women “smokers”2-150
| Correlate measured at entry |
Adjusted odds ratio | 95% confidence interval | p |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| White non-Hispanic2-151 | 1.00 | — | — |
| African American | 0.54 | 0.35 to 0.84 | 0.005 |
| Hispanic | 1.01 | 0.73 to 1.46 | 0.975 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 0.60 | 0.31 to 1.15 | 0.120 |
| Native American | 1.31 | 0.60 to 2.87 | 0.509 |
| Type of entry smoker | |||
| Experimenter2-151 | 1.00 | — | — |
| Occasional | 2.96 | 1.50 to 5.90 | 0.002 |
| Daily | 7.60 | 3.80 to 15.10 | 0.000 |
| Former | 4.45 | 1.75 to 11.47 | 0.002 |
| Cigarettes smoked per day during the past 30 days (mean category)2-152 | 1.25 | 1.16 to 1.36 | 0.000 |
| Intentions to smoke (mean)2-153 | 2.57 | 2.20 to 2.99 | 0.000 |
↵2-150 Includes ever smokers at entry (n = 1718).
↵2-151 Reference group.
↵2-152 Scale includes 1 (< 1 cigarette on average), 2 (1–5 cigarettes), 3 (6–10 cigarettes), 4 (11–15 cigarettes), 5 (16–20 cigarettes), 6 (21–25 cigarettes), 7 (26–30 cigarettes), 8 (31–35 cigarettes), 9 (36–40 cigarettes), and 10 (> 40 cigarettes).
↵2-153 Scale includes 1 (definitely no), 2 (probably no), 3 (probably yes), and 4 (definitely yes).
Age, education, and number of minutes after waking one typically had her first cigarette did not enter the model.