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Table 4 Predicted smoking and drinking response to cigarette price—by age group, BRFSS 2001-6 (a)

From: Unintended consequences of cigarette price changes for alcohol drinking behaviors across age groups: evidence from pooled cross sections

 

Current Smoking

Current Drinking

Binge Drinking

Heavy Drinking

Percentage point change(c)

Percentage point change(c)

Percentage point change(c,d)

Percentage point change(c)

N = 1,323,758(b)

Age group

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

  1. 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.
  2. BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Surveys.
  3. *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.
  4. (a) Weighted data are presented to reflect the complex sampling design of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2001-2006.
  5. (b) This is sample used for all analyses, except as noted.
  6. (c) Percentage point change reflects predicted changes in smoking and drinking pattern response to a $1 increase in state cigarette price.
  7. (d) N = 1,050,573. Includes observations for 2001-2005 only due to change in definition of binge drinking in 2006.