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Table 1 Demographic characteristics and product use behavior for PATH Wave 1 adults who only smoke cigarettes, both smoke and vape, and never used any tobacco products with urinary biomarker data (%, 95% Cl)a

From: Understanding heterogeneity among individuals who smoke cigarettes and vape: assessment of biomarkers of exposure and potential harm among subpopulations from the PATH Wave 1 Data

Characteristics

Group A

(n = 2442)

Group B (n = 970)

Group C

(n = 169)

Group D

(n = 1700)

Group B1

(n = 169, 18.0%)

Group B2

(n = 678, 69.2%)

Group B3

(n = 57, 5.8%)

Group B4

(n = 66, 6.9%)

Sex

       

Male

47.6 (44.5, 50.7)

43.0 (33.0, 53.7)

36.6 (32.1, 41.4)

37.9 (24.0, 54.1)

34.5 (22.5, 48.8)

43.1 (34.9, 51.6)

37.5 (35.0, 40.1)

Female

52.4 (49,3, 55.5)

57.0 (46.3, 67.0)

63.4 (58.6, 68.0)

62.1 (45.9, 76.0)

65.5 (51.2, 77.5)

56.9 (48.4, 65.1)

62.5 (59.9, 65.0)

Age (mean)

46.0 (45.0, 47.0)

46.2 (43.3, 49.1)

43.5 (42.0, 45.0)

43.1 (36.5, 49.8)

38.5 (34.7, 42.4)

43.9 (41.4, 46.4)

44.7 (43.9, 45.6)

Age group (years)

       

18–24

7.2 (5.8, 8.8)

6.7 (3.8, 11.5)

7.7 (5.9, 9.9)

15.2 (7.9, 27.3)

26.4 (17.2, 38.1)

5.6 (3.0, 10.1)

16.1 (14.4, 17.9)

25–34

19.3 (17.1, 21.7)

19.0 (12.7, 27.5)

22.3 (19.0, 26.1)

22.0 (11.8, 37.5)

16.4 (9.3, 27.2)

29.6 (21.8, 38.8)

17.3 (14.9, 20.2)

35–54

43.6 (40.6, 46.6)

41.6 (31.8, 52.1)

46.5 (42.2, 51.0)

31.6 (18.2, 48.9)

37.3 (25.4, 50.9)

36.5 (29.0, 44.7)

35.4 (32.0, 39.0)

55 + 

29.9 (26.8, 33.2)

32.7 (23.8, 43.0)

23.5 (19.1, 28.6)

31.1 (15.3, 53.0)

20.0 (10.5, 34.6)

28.3 (21.6, 36.2)

31.1 (27.9, 34.5)

Race/ethnicity

       

White, non-Hispanic

70.5 (66.9, 73.9)

87.7 (81.2, 92.2)

78.4 (74.9, 81.6)

79.2 (66.1, 88.2)

57.8 (44.4, 70.2)

84.1 (77.5, 89.0)

56.4 (52.6, 60.1)

Non-Hispanic other

19.1 (16.2, 22.3)

8.2 (4.8, 13.6)

10.9 (8.7, 13.5)

13.4 (6.2, 26.7)

6.9 (2.8, 15.7)

11.2 (7.0, 17.5)

22.7 (20.1, 25.4)

Hispanic

10.4 (8.6, 12.5)

4.1 (1.9, 8.4)

10.7 (8.3, 13.7)

7.3 (2.9, 17.1)

35.3 (24.1, 48.3)

4.7 (2.4, 9.1)

21.0 (18.3, 23.9)

Region

       

Northeast

19.0 (15.8, 22.8)

8.1 (4.5, 13.9)

13.4 (10.4, 17.2)

14.7 (6.8, 28.6)

11.7 (6.0, 21.7)

9.8 (6.2, 15.2)

18.1 (15.5, 21.1)

Midwest

25.8 (21.8, 30.4)

29.1 (21.5, 38.0)

24.1 (20.5, 28.1)

14.8 (7.2, 27.8)

19.8 (12.0, 31.0)

29.2 (21.8, 37.9)

17.9 (15.5, 20.5)

South

40.0 (35.4, 44.7)

44.9 (35.1, 55.1)

43.2 (38.0, 48.6)

52.1 (34.0, 69.6)

35.3 (23.1, 49.8)

36.2 (27.8, 45.6)

39.8 (35.6, 44.1)

West

15.2 (12.1, 18.9)

18.0 (12.1, 25.9)

19.2 (15.0, 24.2)

18.5 (8.9, 34.5)

33.1 (20.9, 48.2)

24.8 (17.0, 34.7)

24.2 (20.6, 28.3)

Education

       

Less than HS diploma

31.6 (28.9, 34.3)

23.0 (16.4, 31.3)

23.4 (20.0, 27.1)

34.1 (17.1, 56.4)

18.4 (10.0, 31.4)

13.9 (9.2, 20.4)

16.3 (14.3, 18.6)

HS diploma

32.5 (29.6, 35.5)

25.5 (17.8, 35.2)

24.7 (21.2, 28.7)

13.7 (6.0, 28.3)

20.5 (11.5, 33.8)

28.9 (21.5, 37.6)

25.3 (21.7, 29.1)

Some college

29.5 (26.9, 32.4)

41.2 (31.1, 52.0)

37.0 (32.8, 41.3)

42.5 (25.1, 62.0)

46.4 (33.3, 60.0)

42.4 (34.3, 50.8)

27.6 (24.7, 30.8)

Bachelor and higher

6.4 (5.3, 7.8)

10.3 (5.5, 18.6)

14.9 (11.5, 19.2)

9.7 (3.8, 22.5)

14.7 (7.6, 26.6)

14.9 (10.1, 21.3)

30.8 (27.1, 34.7)

Body Mass Index

       

15 to < 25

37.0 (33.8, 40.2)

39.5 (30.8, 48.9)

36.4 (31.8, 41.2)

53.7 (41.8, 65.6)

34.3 (23.0, 47.7)

37.5 (30.1, 45.6)

33.6 (30.1, 37.2)

25 to 50

63.0 (59.8, 66.2)

60.5 (51.1, 69.2)

63.6 (58.8, 68.2)

46.3 (34.4, 58.2)

65.7 (52.3, 77.0)

62.5 (54.4, 69.9)

66.4 (62.8, 69.9)

Mean cigarettes smoked per day

15.8 (15.2, 16.4)

15.0 (13.2, 16.8)

15.7 (15.0, 16.4)

8.4 (3.2, 13.7)

4.8 (2.2, 7.3)

Mean days smoked in past 30d

30^

29.2 (28.8, 29.6)

29.7 (29.6, 29.8)

6.0 (4.3, 7.6)

6.5 (5.0, 8.0)

Mean days vaped in past 30d

28.8 (28.2, 29.4)

3.5 (3.2, 3.9)

29.2 (28.6, 29.9)

3.1 (2.0, 4.2)

30^

  1. aEstimates are for participants with urinary biomarker weights. Reported above are weighted percentage and may not add up to 100 due to rounding. ^—recoded because PATH does not ask everyday users about their frequency of use in the past 30d. HS, High School. Group A—people who only smoke cigarettes everyday; Group B—people who smoke and vape; Group B1—people who frequently smoke and vape; Group B2—people who frequently smoke and infrequently vape; Group B3—people who frequently vape and infrequently smoke; Group B4—people who infrequently smoke and vape; Group C—people who only vape everyday; Group D—people who never used any tobacco products