Prisoners' attitudes towards cigarette smoking and smoking cessation: a questionnaire study in Poland

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Distribution of the study population according to smoking status and selected characteristics

Characteristics	Total		Smoking status
			Smokers		Ex-smokers		Never-smokers
	No.	(%)	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Total number of subjects	907	(100)	736	81	105	12	66	7
Age
≤ 20	85	(9)	74	87	4	5	7	8
21–30	372	(41)	296	79	51	14	25	70
31–40	253	(28)	203	80	28	11	22	9
41–50	156	(17)	132	85	16	10	8	5
> 50	41	(5)	31	75	6	15	4	10
Imprisonment status*
Provisionally detained	319	(35)	238	75	37	11	44	14
First sentenced	227	(25)	193	85	21	9	13	6
Recidivists	351	(39)	297	85	45	13	9	2
Missing data	10	(1)	8	80	2	20	0	0
Education **
Elementary or vocational school	648	(71)	544	84	65	10	39	6
Secondary/university	226	(25)	164	72	38	17	24	11
Missing data	33	(4)	28	85	2	6	3	9
Alcohol and/or illicit drug	500^†	(55)	434	87	46	9	20	4
abuse ***
Very excessive drinkers	122	(13)	107	88	10	8	5	4
Excessive drinkers	130	(14)	112	86	13	10	5	4
Mild drinkers	151	(17)	135	89	9	6	7	5
Drug abusers	95	(10)	76	80	16	17	3	3
Drug incidentally users	94	(10)	80	85	8	9	6	6
No substance abuse reported	362	(40)	261	72	55	15	46	13
Missing data	45	(5)	41	91	4	9	0	0

* p = 0.0002 comparing the rates of smokers and non smokers (combined ex- and never smokers) among subjects provisionally detained vs. others (first sentenced and recidivists)
** p < 0.0001 comparing the rates of smokers and non-smokers among subjects with secondary/university education vs. others (combined subjects with primary/vocational education and missing data).
*** p < 0.0001 comparing the rates of ever-smokers (combined current and former smokers) and never smokers among alcohol and/or illicit drug abusers vs. no substance abusers.
^† The number of 500 subjects reporting alcohol and/or illicit drug abusing does not reflect a total of the listed subcategories of abusers, because they are not exclusive.

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