Characteristics of smokers living less or more than 500 m from a tobacco retail outlet in the Ontario Tobacco Survey, Ontario, Canada (n=2414)
| Did not make a quit attempt | Made a quit attempt | Total analytic sample | ||||||
| n=1493 | n=921 | n=2414 | ||||||
| % | CI | % | CI | % | CI | p Value | ||
| Gender | ||||||||
| Female | n=1293 | 45 | (41.6 to 48.5) | 44.2 | (39.8 to 48.7) | 44.7 | (42.0 to 47.5) | 0.773 |
| Male | n=1121 | 55 | (51.5 to 58.4) | 55.8 | (51.3 to 60.2) | 55.3 | (52.5 to 58.0) | |
| Age | ||||||||
| 18–29 | n=315 | 15.3 | (12.8 to 18.1) | 20.2 | (16.5 to 24.5) | 17.2 | (15.0 to 19.6) | 0.209 |
| 30–39 | n=420 | 18.6 | (16.0 to 21.6) | 19.6 | (16.0 to 23.7) | 19 | (16.8 to 21.4) | |
| 40–49 | n=580 | 28.1 | (24.9 to 31.4) | 24.4 | (20.8 to 28.4) | 26.7 | (24.2 to 29.2) | |
| 50–59 | n=592 | 21.9 | (19.2 to 24.8) | 19 | (16.0 to 22.5) | 20.8 | (18.7 to 23.0) | |
| 60–69 | n=327 | 8.7 | (7.3 to 10.5) | 9.4 | (7.3 to 12.0) | 9 | (7.8 to 10.4) | |
| 70+ | n=180 | 7.4 | (5.7 to 9.6) | 7.4 | (5.3 to 10.3) | 7.4 | (6.0 to 9.1) | |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| Married | n=1198 | 54 | (50.5 to 57.5) | 57.4 | (52.8 to 61.9) | 55.3 | (52.5 to 58.1) | 0.258 |
| Single | n=1216 | 46 | (42.5 to 49.5) | 42.6 | (38.1 to 47.2) | 44.7 | (41.9 to 47.5) | |
| Education | ||||||||
| High school or less | n=1241 | 0.49 | (0.46 to 0.53) | 0.56 | (0.51 to 0.60) | 0.52 | (0.49 to 0.55) | 0.380 |
| More than high school | n=1141 | 0.51 | (0.47 to 0.54) | 0.44 | (0.40 to 0.49) | 0.48 | (0.45 to 0.51) | |
| Income quintile | ||||||||
| Lowest | n=674 | 22.1 | (19.6 to 24.9) | 20.7 | (17.4 to 24.4) | 21.6 | (19.6 to 23.8) | 0.221 |
| Second | n=611 | 25.3 | (22.4 to 28.5) | 24.4 | (20.7 to 28.5) | 25 | (22.6 to 27.5) | |
| Third | n=475 | 22.8 | (20.0 to 26.0) | 19 | (15.7 to 22.9) | 21.4 | (19.1 to 23.8) | |
| Fourth | n=374 | 16.7 | (14.0 to 19.7) | 19.8 | (16.4 to 23.8) | 17.9 | (15.8 to 20.2) | |
| Highest | n=280 | 13 | (10.8 to 15.7) | 16.1 | (12.8 to 19.9) | 14.2 | (12.3 to 16.4) | |
| Percent immigrant in neighbourhood | ||||||||
| Lower quintiles | n=1766 | 0.57 | (0.54 to 0.61) | 0.58 | (0.54 to 0.62) | 0.58 | (0.55 to 0.60) | 0.546 |
| Highest quintile | n=482 | 0.29 | (0.25 to 0.32) | 0.29 | (0.26 to 0.34) | 0.29 | (0.26 to 0.32) | |
| Highest tertile | n=160 | 0.14 | (0.11 to 0.17) | 0.13 | (0.10 to 0.16) | 0.13 | (0.11 to 0.16) | |
| Community size | ||||||||
| 1 500 000+ | n=430 | 0.41 | (0.38 to 0.44) | 0.37 | (0.33 to 0.42) | 0.4 | (0.37 to 0.42) | 0.160 |
| 500 000–1 499 000 | n=347 | 0.13 | (0.11 to 0.15) | 0.13 | (0.10 to 0.16) | 0.13 | (0.11 to 0.14) | |
| 100 000–499 000 | n=1064 | 0.34 | (0.31 to 0.37) | 0.35 | (0.31 to 0.39) | 0.34 | (0.32 to 0.36) | |
| 10 000–99 999 | n=444 | 0.1 | (0.09 to 0.12) | 0.11 | (0.09 to 0.13) | 0.1 | (0.09 to 0.12) | |
| Less than 10 000 | n=129 | 0.02 | (0.02 to 0.03) | 0.05 | (0.03 to 0.07) | 0.03 | (0.03 to 0.04) | |
| Children at home | ||||||||
| No | n=1465 | 58.2 | (54.6 to 61.6) | 54.9 | (50.3 to 59.4) | 56.9 | (54.1 to 59.7) | 0.262 |
| Yes | n=949 | 41.8 | (38.4 to 45.4) | 45.1 | (40.6 to 49.7) | 43.1 | (40.3 to 45.9) | |
| Previously used pharmaceutical quit aid | ||||||||
| No | n=1138 | 54.8 | (51.2 to 58.2) | 46.4 | (41.8 to 51.0) | 51.5 | (48.8 to 54.3) | 0.005 |
| Yes | n=1276 | 45.2 | (41.8 to 48.8) | 53.6 | (49.0 to 58.2) | 48.5 | (45.7 to 51.2) | |
| No | n=1706 | 78.9 | (76.1 to 81.5) | 68.5 | (64.2 to 72.5) | 74.9 | (72.5 to 77.1) | <0.001 |
| Yes | n=708 | 21.1 | (18.5 to 23.9) | 31.5 | (27.5 to 35.8) | 25.1 | (22.9 to 27.5) | |
| Zero | n=344 | 18.9 | (16.3 to 21.9) | 10.2 | (7.5 to 13.6) | 15.6 | (13.6 to 17.8) | <0.001 |
| More than zero | n=2070 | 81.1 | (78.1 to 83.7) | 89.8 | (86.4 to 92.5) | 84.4 | (82.2 to 86.4) | |
| Low | n=1169 | 50.5 | (47.0 to 54.0) | 56.8 | (52.4 to 61.2) | 52.9 | (50.2 to 55.7) | 0.030 |
| Medium/high | n=1245 | 49.5 | (46.0 to 53.0) | 43.2 | (38.8 to 47.6) | 47.1 | (44.3 to 49.8) | |
| No outlets with 500 m | n=776 | 32.1 | (28.9 to 35.5) | 33.1 | (28.9 to 37.5) | 32.5 | (29.9 to 35.2) | 0.738 |
| One or more outlets | n=1638 | 67.9 | (64.5 to 71.1) | 66.9 | (62.5 to 71.1) | 67.5 | (64.8 to 70.1) | |
| Region | ||||||||
| Toronto | n=598 | 0.57 | (0.54 to 0.59) | 0.55 | (0.51 to 0.59) | 0.56 | (0.55 to 0.58) | 0.769 |
| East | n=736 | 0.2 | (0.18 to 0.22) | 0.21 | (0.19 to 0.24) | 0.2 | (0.19 to 0.21) | |
| South | n=519 | 0.11 | (0.10 to 0.12) | 0.11 | (0.09 to 0.13) | 0.11 | (0.10 to 0.12) | |
| North | n=561 | 0.12 | (0.11 to 0.13) | 0.13 | (0.11 to 0.15) | 0.12 | (0.12 to 0.13) | |
Perceived addiction (Question: How addicted to smoking do you feel yourself to be: very, somewhat, not at all addicted), any past use of pharmaceutical quit aids (ie, patch, gum, spray, buproprion, varenicline (yes/no)), any past use of behavioural quit aids (ie, self-help, counselling, group therapy (yes/no)). For the present study, high and moderate nicotine dependence was based on the Heaviness of Smoking Index and defined as a score of greater than 2.