Table 1

Descriptive statistics

Variables	Observation	Mean/proportion
Cigarette consumption
Cigarette consumption per day	14 505	17.12	(0.1 to −100)
Ln (cigarette consumption per day)	14 460	2.61	(−2.3 to −4.6)
Cigarette price
Inflation adjusted cigarette per pack price	13 950	6.51	(0.2 to −92.55)
Ln(cigarette price)	13 950	1.71	(−1.61 to −4.54)
Gender
Female	14 561	0.04
Age
Aged 18–24	14 561	0.02
Aged 25–39	14 561	0.18
Aged 40–54	14 561	0.46
Aged 55+	14 561	0.34
Marital status
Married dummy	14 514	0.88
Single dummy	14 514	0.05
Divorced/widowed dummy	14 514	0.06
Average total household income per month (in ¥)
≥3000 (high income)	14 561	0.35
1000–2999 (medium income)	14 561	0.43
<1000 (low income)	14 561	0.15
Missing-income dummy	14 561	0.07
Education
College and above	14 510	0.21
High school	14 510	0.65
Less than high school	14 510	0.13
Employment status
Employed dummy	14 509	0.59
Unemployed dummy	14 509	0.14
Retired dummy	14 509	0.27
Interview waves and cities
Wave 1 dummy	14 561	0.32
Wave 2 dummy	14 561	0.32
Wave 3 dummy	14 561	0.36
City Beijing dummy	14 561	0.16
City Shenyang dummy	14 561	0.16
City Shanghai dummy	14 561	0.16
City Changsha dummy	14 561	0.15
City Guangzhou dummy	14 561	0.16
City Yinchuan dummy	14 561	0.16
City Kunming dummy	14 561	0.05