Fully adjusted and weighted logistic regression for likelihood of acquiring tobacco cigarettes from different sources in UK adolescents (n=831)
| Supermarket | Small shop | Acquired other | ||||
| Characteristic | n (%) | aOR (95% CI) | n (%) | aOR (95% CI) | n (%) | aOR (95% CI) |
| Total sample | 221 (25.1) | 422 (50.1) | 474 (58.1) | |||
| Survey year | ||||||
| 2018 | 41 (26.1) | Ref | 77 (49.5) | Ref | 88 (58.4) | Ref |
| 2019 | 59 (26.7) | 1.09 (0.64, 1.85) | 91 (45.0) | 0.89 (0.56, 1.40) | 120 (62.7) | 1.12 (0.70, 1.78) |
| 2020 | 54 (26.1) | 1.13 (0.66, 1.91) | 94 (47.0) | 0.98 (0.62, 1.56) | 119 (61.0) | 0.95 (0.60, 1.51) |
| 2021 | 40 (32.0) | 1.40 (0.78, 2.50) | 68 (56.3) | 1.44 (0.87, 2.39) | 67 (52.4) | 0.67 (0.40, 1.14) |
| 2022 | 27 (15.6) | 0.56 (0.30, 1.04) | 92 (56.1) | 1.34 (0.81, 2.22) | 80 (53.3) | 0.71 (0.42, 1.19) |
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 109 (25.4) | Ref | 213 (51.7) | Ref | 226 (56.1) | Ref |
| Female | 112 (24.8) | 0.98 (0.70, 1.38) | 209 (48.2) | 0.87 (0.65, 1.17) | 248 (60.3) | 1.13 (0.83, 1.53) |
| Age | ||||||
| 18 | 137 (40.8) | Ref | 193 (57.3) | Ref | 149 (44.7) | Ref |
| 16–17 | 54 (15.5) | 0.26*** (0.17, 0.38) | 156 (44.7) | 0.56** (0.41, 0.78) | 228 (68.5) | 2.81*** (2.02, 3.91) |
| 14–15 | 14 (15.6) | 0.24*** (0.13, 0.45) | 41 (43.5) | 0.49** (0.31, 0.78) | 71 (71.6) | 3.51*** (2.11, 5.85) |
| 11–13 | 16 (27.3) | 0.47* (0.25, 0.90) | 32 (56.8) | 0.89 (0.48, 1.63) | 26 (42.2) | 0.94 (0.51, 1.70) |
| Social grade | ||||||
| Middle class | 164 (25.6) | Ref | 287 (47.3) | Ref | 352 (60.0) | Ref |
| Working class | 57 (24.0) | 0.92 (0.62, 1.35) | 135 (57.4) | 1.53* (1.09, 2.14) | 122 (53.1) | 0.71* (0.50, 0.99) |
| Country | ||||||
| England | 189 (24.9) | Ref | 360 (50.3) | Ref | 405 (58.8) | Ref |
| Wales | 13 (40.0) | 1.97 (0.89, 4.36) | 18 (52.7) | 0.87 (0.44, 1.74) | 18 (45.2) | 0.63 (0.32, 1.22) |
| Scotland | 19 (20.3) | 0.89 (0.48, 1.64) | 44 (46.5) | 0.87 (0.54, 1.40) | 51 (58.9) | 0.94 (0.58, 1.52) |
| Tobacco cigarette use in the household | ||||||
| No | 178 (24.1) | Ref | 329 (46.4) | Ref | 400 (59.4) | Ref |
| Yes | 43 (29.8) | 1.61* (1.01, 2.58) | 93 (65.7) | 2.26*** (1.46, 3.50) | 74 (52.7) | 0.77 (0.50, 1.18) |
N (%)=number and per cent of tobacco cigarette users who obtained cigarettes through this source within each stratum of the sociodemographic variables. Tobacco cigarette sources are not mutually exclusive, therefore percentages do not add to 100% across sources.
*P<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
aOR, adjusted OR.