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Table 1 Patient Characteristics (N = 375)

From: Patient preferences for emergency department-initiated tobacco interventions: a multicenter cross-sectional study of current smokers

Characteristic

n (%)

Age (mean)

41

Gender

 

   Female

210 (56)

   Male

164 (44)

Race/ethnicity

 

   Hispanic/Latino

73 (20)

   White, non-Hispanic

152 (41)

   Black, non-Hispanic

137 (37)

   Other

10 (3)

Insurance categories

 

   Private

79 (22)

   Medicare

22 (6)

   Medicaid or other public

129 (37)

   Uninsured

123 (33)

Annual household income

 

   < 20,000

148 (40)

   ≤ 21,000-40,000

91 (24)

   41,000-60,000

34 (9)

   61,000-80,000

11 (3)

   > 80,000

12 (3)

   Don't know

79 (21)

Highest grade completed

 

   < high school

88 (24)

   high school

282 (76)

Smoking measures:

Cigarettes per day

 

   (1-10)

198 (54)

   (11-20)

118 (32)

   (21-30)

36 (10)

   (≥ 31)

19 (5)

Minutes after waking to 1st

 

   cigarette

71 (20)

   (> 61)

41 (11)

   (31-61)

125 (34)

   (6-30)

127 (35)

   (0-5)

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