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Table 3 Type of cigarette smokers and duration of cigarette smoking by sociodemographic variables

From: Smoking behavior of males attending the quit tobacco clinics in Bahrain and their knowledge on tobacco smoking health hazards

Variable

Categories

Smoker (Cigarette) Per day

P-Value

Duration of Cigarette Smoked (years)

P-Value

Light Smoker [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] n (%)

Moderate Smoker [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20] n (%)

Heavy Smoker (> 20) n (%)

<  10 n (%)

≥ 10 n (%)

Age (Years)

≤ 25

27 (60.0)

48 (34.8)

29 (19.2)

< 0.0001

101 (40.7)

0 (0)

< 0.0001

26–40

13 (28.9)

58 (42.0)

60 (39.5)

120 (48.4)

7 (9.1)

41–55

4 (8.9)

25 (18.1)

53 (35.1)

26 (10.5)

55 (71.4)

56–70

1 (2.2)

7 (5.1)

9 (6.0)

1 (0.4)

15 (19.5)

Total

45 (100)

138 (100)

151 (100)

248 (100)

77 (100)

Educational Level

Primary

4 (8.9)

7 (5.1)

16 (10.4)

0.844

17 (16.9)

9 (11.3)

0.660

Intermediate

8 (17.9)

30 (21.7)

33 (21.4)

51 (20.6)

17 (21.3)

Secondary

21 (46.7)

67 (48.6)

66 (42.6)

117 (47.2)

34 (42.5)

Graduate

12 (26.7)

34 (24.6)

39 (25.2)

63 (25.4)

20 (25)

Total

45 (100)

138 (100)

155 (100)

248 (100)

80 (100)

Marital Status

Never Married

31 (68.9)

52 (37.7)

37 (23.7)

< 0.0001

114 (46)

2 (2.5)

< 0.001

Ever Married

14 (31.1)

86 (62.3)

119(76.3)

134 (54)

79 (97.5)

Total

45 (100)

138 (100)

156 (100)

248 (100)

81 (100)

Nationality

Bahrain

36 (80)

108 (77.7)

113 (72.9)

0.234

186 (74.7)

63 (77.8)

0.228

Other Arab

6 (13.3)

22 (15.8)

37 (23.9)

53 (21.3)

11 (13.6)

South Asian

3 (6.7)

9 (6.5)

5 (3.2)

10 (4)

7 (8.6)

Total

45 (100)

139 (100)

155 (100)

249 (100)

81 (100)

Income (BHD)

< 300

3(14.3)

7 (8.8)

3(3.3)

0.557

11 (8.3)

2 (3.6)

0.534

300–599

6 (28.6.)

28 (35)

34 (37.8)

46 (34.8)

22 (39.3)

600–899

6 (28.6.)

27 (33.8)

28 (31.1)

44 (33.3)

16 (28.6)

≥900

6 (13.3)

18 (22.5)

25 (27.8)

31 (23.5)

16 (28.6)

Total

21 (100)

80 (100)

155 (100)

132 (100)

56 (100)

Number of Children

None

0 (0)

9 (10.6)

13 (11.4)

0.075

18 (13.7)

4 (5.2)

0.471

1–2

9 (64.3)

32 (37.6)

30 (26.3)

60 (45.8)

10 (13)

3–4

5 (35.7)

30 (35.3)

47 (41.2)

42 (32.)

37 (48.1)

5–6

0 (0)

14 (16.5)

24 (21.1)

11 (8.4)

26 (33.8)

Total

14 (100)

85 (100)

114 (100)

131 (100)

77 (100)