Table 2

Wave 1 sample sizes for completed interviews and collected biospecimen type by Wave 1 current tobacco-use status

Wave 1 sample size
Youth interviewAdults
Collected biospecimens
Tobacco product useInterviewUrineBloodBuccal*Urine and bloodAll 3*
Any current tobacco use1151†17 732‡12 5338422736480204086
Any current cigarette use63413 52997606679575363523268
Any current smokeless use, excluding snus18018731319848734825426
Any current e-cigarette use41836422666183615731739897
Any current cigarillo use29329692310152513551464735
Any current traditional cigar use9225861769117310471124575
Any current hookah use22631342306141414011336694
Any current filtered cigar use671295999689629658383
Any current pipe use41709518354300339174
Any current snus use
Any current dissolvable
61
3
479
67
366
52
256
31
227
33
247
30
132
14
Any current bidi use6
Any current kretek use11
No current tobacco use11 81513 90289045862498656112755
  • Note that because of the differential sampling rates for different demographic and tobacco-use groups in the PATH Study, the sample sizes reported in these tables cannot be used to estimate population percentages in different demographic categories. Weights need to be used to calculate estimates from the PATH Study.

  • *Buccal cells were collected during a portion of Wave 1 (ended on 18 May 2014).

  • †Youth current user: has used the product at least once in the past 30 days.

  • ‡Adult current user: has ever smoked/used (respective tobacco product) and now smokes/uses (respective tobacco product) ‘every day’ or ‘some days’.