Korean Journal of Family Practice
Table. 1.

General characteristics of smokers according to the type of tobacco

Smoking status (n=2,264)
CC EC HTP EC+HTP P-value
Count Row Count Row Count Row Count Row
Sex 0.793 (0.649)a
Male 1,409 83.1 124 80.0 275 83.3 70 83.3
Female 286 16.9 31 20.0 55 16.7 14 16.7
Age <0.001 (0.021)
20–44 630 37.2 126 81.3 236 71.5 69 82.1
>44 1,165 44.8 29 18.7 94 28.5 15 17.9
Economic status <0.001 (0.063)
Low 545 32.2 39 25.3 68 20.6 23 27.4
Middle-low 452 26.7 43 27.9 87 26.4 10 11.9
Middle-high 360 21.3 44 28.6 92 27.9 28 33.3
High 333 19.7 28 18.2 83 25.2 23 27.4
Education level <0.001 (0.373)
Elementary school 207 13.1 2 1.3 2 0.6 0 0.0
Middle school 174 11.0 5 3.3 11 3.4 4 5.0
High school 694 44.0 73 48.0 125 38.8 37 46.3
College or high 502 31.8 72 47.4 184 57.1 39 48.8
City/suburb <0.001 (0.388)
City 1,329 78.4 134 86.5 295 89.4 71 84.5
Suburb 366 21.6 21 13.5 35 10.6 13 15.5
Marital status <0.001 (<0.001)
Married 1,282 75.6 66 42.6 214 64.8 39 46.4
Un-married 413 24.4 89 57.4 116 35.2 45 53.6

Values are presented as number (weighted %).

CC, conventional cigarette; EC, electronic cigarette; HTP, heated tobacco product.

aThe P-value in parentheses is the chi-square analysis result for the EC, HTP, EC+HTP groups.

P-value is based on chi-square analysis for categorical variables.
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