Table 1

Prevalence (%) of use of menthol cigarettes among past 30-day smokers, by age and gender, race/ethnicity, household income and the number of days smoked/month in the USA, 2008–2010

	All ages		12–17		18–25		26–34		35–49		50+
Factor	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Overall	35.23	34.19 to 36.27	56.71	54.62 to 58.80	45.01	43.80 to 46.22	34.74	32.87 to 36.62	30.50	29.13 to 31.87	30.74	28.27 to 33.22
Gender
Male	31.40	30.24 to 32.55	53.79	51.34 to 56.24	41.94	40.45 to 43.42	32.67	30.16 to 35.18	25.15	23.48 to 26.82	25.70	22.53 to 28.87
Female	39.65	38.11 to 41.19	59.87	57.15 to 62.58	48.95	47.36 to 50.53	37.42	34.90 to 39.94	36.46	34.40 to 38.52	35.87	32.51 to 39.23
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic Caucasian	25.70	24.71 to 26.69	51.30	48.84 to 53.77	36.39	35.12 to 37.66	23.58	21.96 to 25.20	20.05	18.58 to 21.53	22.63	20.53 to 24.73
Non-Hispanic Black	88.47	86.24 to 90.71	94.89	92.68 to 97.11	93.97	92.57 to 95.37	91.61	88.48 to 94.74	89.93	86.43 to 93.44	80.99	75.39 to 86.58
Non-Hispanic other	45.19	37.25 to 53.12	56.49	44.50 to 68.49	56.28	49.24 to 63.31	38.68	25.65 to 51.71	48.47	31.43 to 65.51	31.58	13.12 to 50.04
Non-Hispanic Asian	30.77	26.41 to 35.13	60.71	41.48 to 79.94	49.77	42.57 to 56.97	27.05	17.17 to 36.92	24.91	14.72 to 35.10	16.96	3.62 to 30.29
Non-Hispanic more than one race	42.16	34.57 to 49.75	59.39	49.71 to 69.07	52.81	46.09 to 59.53	30.86	23.03 to 38.69	48.16	37.89 to 58.43	33.75	14.87 to 52.63
Hispanic	38.06	35.70 to 40.43	58.18	52.20 to 64.15	47.33	44.50 to 50.16	40.45	35.38 to 45.52	31.86	26.40 to 37.32	26.82	18.23 to 35.40
Household income
Lower tertile	40.68	38.85 to 42.51	58.32	54.59 to 62.05	45.99	43.93 to 48.06	44.95	41.20 to 48.69	38.92	35.99 to 41.85	32.97	29.09 to 36.84
Middle tertile	35.81	34.17 to 37.46	58.02	54.23 to 61.81	45.05	43.28 to 46.83	35.55	32.45 to 38.66	30.37	28.14 to 32.60	32.44	28.47 to 36.41
Higher tertile	31.20	29.75 to 32.65	55.01	51.75 to 58.27	43.99	42.42 to 45.56	28.04	25.65 to 30.43	26.42	24.13 to 28.72	27.57	24.03 to 31.10
Number of days smoked per month
1–5 days	39.50	37.35 to 41.65	57.78	54.03 to 61.53	43.76	41.67 to 45.84	32.90	28.28 to 37.52	34.21	29.53 to 38.89	39.26	32.30 to 46.22
6–29 days	41.30	39.44 to 43.15	58.70	55.30 to 62.09	46.82	44.57 to 49.06	37.77	34.03 to 41.51	37.06	34.00 to 40.12	38.87	32.66 to 45.08
30 days	31.92	30.71 to 33.13	51.98	48.55 to 55.40	44.53	43.12 to 45.93	34.09	31.73 to 36.45	27.73	26.13 to 29.33	27.88	25.16 to 30.59

Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Self-reported menthol status was adjusted if necessary using retail checkout scanner data. Sample size=40 841.