Table 2 Participant characteristics (N = 85)
From: Smokers’ beliefs about the tobacco control potential of “a gene for smoking”: a focus group study
Mean | SD | |
|---|---|---|
Age | 42.8 | 12.9 |
n | % | |
Sex | ||
Men | 44 | 51.8 |
Women | 41 | 48.2 |
Race | ||
African American | 52 | 61.2 |
White | 33 | 38.8 |
Education | ||
<High school | 6 | 7.0 |
High school/GED | 17 | 20.0 |
Vo-Tech | 5 | 5.9 |
Some college | 29 | 34.1 |
Bachelor’s degree | 19 | 22.4 |
Postgraduate degree | 9 | 10.6 |
Smoking frequency | ||
Daily | 78 | 91.8 |
Some days | 7 | 8.2 |
Number of cigarettes smoked daily | ||
<1 | 5 | 5.9 |
1-9 | 28 | 32.9 |
10-19 | 27 | 31.8 |
20-29 | 20 | 23.5 |
30-39 | 3 | 3.5 |
40+ | 2 | 2.4 |