Table 3

Trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking (%) by type of cigarette smoked and age, gender and race/ethnicity in the USA, 2004–2010

	Percentage									p Value for difference in slopes
Type of cigarette smoked/factor	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Estimated slope	p Value for slope	p Value for difference in slopes
12–17 years:
Overall
Menthol	5.3	4.8	4.8	4.9	4.6	5.0	4.5	−0.08	0.11	<0.001
Non-menthol	6.0	5.5	5.3	4.5	3.9	3.5	3.4	−0.47	<0.001
Gender:
Male
Menthol	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.8	4.4	4.8	4.4	0.00	0.95	<0.001
Non-menthol	6.2	5.7	5.4	4.9	4.0	3.9	3.8	−0.43	<0.001
Female
Menthol	6.0	5.3	5.3	5.0	4.8	5.1	4.7	−0.18	0.01	<0.001
Non-menthol	5.8	5.2	5.1	4.2	3.8	3.0	3.0	−0.52	<0.001
Race/ethnicity:
Non-Hispanic Caucasian
Menthol	5.8	4.8	4.9	5.5	4.8	5.2	5.1	−0.02	0.79	<0.001
Non-menthol	8.1	7.5	7.2	6.3	5.2	5.0	4.2	−0.69	<0.001
Non Hispanic Black
Menthol	5.3	6.1	5.7	5.8	4.9	4.8	4.2	−0.23	0.04	0.11
Non-menthol	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.03	0.48
Hispanic
Menthol	3.7	4.3	4.2	3.1	3.8	4.6	3.8	−0.01	0.90	0.30
Non-menthol	4.4	3.4	3.5	2.8	3.1	2.2	3.4	−0.18	0.16
18–25 years:
Overall
Menthol	14.0	13.7	14.1	14.2	14.6	15.9	16.3	0.45	0.003	<0.001
Non-menthol	25.7	25.3	24.2	21.6	20.4	19.6	17.3	−1.48	<0.001
Gender:
Male
Menthol	14.4	14.0	14.4	14.9	15.4	16.3	17.0	0.50	0.001	<0.001
Non-menthol	29.5	28.9	27.3	25.2	23.7	23.6	20.2	−1.57	<0.001
Female
Menthol	13.6	13.3	13.8	13.5	13.9	15.5	15.6	0.35	0.02	<0.001
Non-menthol	21.9	21.6	21.1	18.0	17.1	15.6	14.3	−1.35	<0.001
Race/ethnicity:
Non-Hispanic Caucasian
Menthol	12.3	11.8	12.7	12.5	13.1	14.5	15.6	0.56	0.01	<0.001
Non-menthol	33.0	32.5	31.5	28.1	26.8	26.0	22.8	−1.76	<0.001
Non Hispanic Black
Menthol	27.5	26.0	25.0	24.0	24.5	24.2	24.6	−0.44	0.04	0.13
Non-menthol	2.0	2.3	1.7	1.8	1.2	1.9	1.5	−0.10	0.21
Hispanic
Menthol	11.2	11.4	11.4	12.9	13.1	14.1	12.7	0.40	0.03	<0.001
Non-menthol	20.6	20.5	17.5	15.9	16.0	14.6	13.9	−1.14	<0.001
26+ years:
Overall
Menthol	7.0	7.2	7.6	7.4	7.6	7.0	7.4	0.04	0.46	0.001
Non-menthol	16.9	17.2	16.8	16.4	15.9	16.1	15.3	−0.28	0.002
Gender:
Male
Menthol	6.8	6.7	7.5	7.4	7.4	6.5	7.1	0.03	0.76	0.003
Non-menthol	20.3	20.7	19.9	19.4	18.8	18.5	18.2	−0.40	<0.001
Female
Menthol	7.3	7.7	7.6	7.3	7.8	7.4	7.7	0.02	0.65	0.04
Non-menthol	13.9	14.1	14.0	13.7	13.3	13.9	12.7	−0.17	0.07
Race/ethnicity:
Non-Hispanic Caucasian
Menthol	5.3	5.2	5.5	5.4	5.5	4.8	5.3	−0.04	0.44	0.05
Non-menthol	19.7	19.8	19.0	19.1	18.6	18.9	18.1	−0.23	<0.001
Non Hispanic Black
Menthol	21.7	21.9	21.7	21.4	24.0	21.1	22.0	0.05	0.81	0.40
Non-menthol	3.6	4.7	5.2	4.5	3.3	3.7	3.0	−0.18	0.26
Hispanic
Menthol	5.3	6.6	7.0	6.9	6.0	7.3	7.7	0.27	0.07	0.02
Non-menthol	15.2	15.7	16.6	13.7	13.3	14.4	13.6	−0.37	0.10

Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004–2010. Respondents aged 12 years and older. Self-reported menthol status was adjusted if necessary using retail checkout scanner data. Sample size=389 698.