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Current Smoking
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Current Drinking
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Binge Drinking
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Heavy Drinking
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|---|
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Percentage point change(c)
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Percentage point change(c)
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Percentage point change(c,d)
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Percentage point change(c)
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|---|
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N = 1,323,758(b)
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Age group
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18-20
|
-1.76
|
-4.02*
|
2.98
|
0.56
|
|
21-29
|
0.83
|
-0.83
|
4.06***
|
1.15**
|
|
30-64
|
-1.10**
|
0.82
|
-0.09
|
-0.19
|
|
65 and older
|
1.43*
|
3.72***
|
-1.95**
|
0.05
|
- Notes: Models included covariates for gender, poverty status, race/ethnicity, co-habitating partner status, employment status, educational level, beer price (six-pack), magnitude of state smokefree laws, state poverty rate.
- BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Surveys.
- *p < .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p < .001, using t-tests, df =1,320,358, for current smoking, current drinking, and heavy drinking, df =1,047,879 for binge drinking.
- (a) Weighted data are presented to reflect the complex sampling design of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2001-2006.
- (b) This is sample used for all analyses, except as noted.
- (c) Percentage point change reflects predicted changes in smoking and drinking pattern response to a $1 increase in state cigarette price.
- (d) N = 1,050,573. Includes observations for 2001-2005 only due to change in definition of binge drinking in 2006.
