Commentary: Cigarette dependence in menthol and non-menthol young adult cigarette smokers

Figures & data

Table 1. Sample demographics.

	Overall	Menthol	Non-menthol
Sample size	2,194	1,202	992
Gender
Female	1,307 (50.0%)	715 (50.0%)	592 (50.0%)
Male	887 (50.0%)	487 (50.0%)	400 (50.0%)
Ethnicity
Hispanic	364 (15.4%)	232 (17.8%)	132 (12.6%)
Non-Hispanic Black	309 (15.9%)	238 (22.7%)	71 (7.9%)
Non-Hispanic Other	156 (6.6%)	95 (7.7%)	61 (5.4%)
Non-Hispanic White	1,365 (62.1%)	637 (51.7%)	728 (74.1%)
Education
Up to High school	1,292 (68.8%)	685 (67.0%)	607 (70.9%)
Some college	624 (23.2%)	359 (24.5%)	265 (21.6%)
Bachelors plus	278 (8.0%)	158 (8.5%)	120 (7.4%)

Numbers are the unweighted samples sizes, percentages in parentheses are weighted.

Table 2. Percent of respondents (and 95% CIs) who are daily smokers, and among daily smokers proportions who are low dependence and high dependence on HSI.

	Menthol	Non-menthol	T-value	df	p-value	Effect size (Cohen’s d)
	n = 1,202	n = 992
% Daily smokers	60.4% (57.3% − 63.5%)	70.4% (67.4% − 73.5%)	4.53	2,192	<.0001	d = .21
Among daily smokers
% Low HSI	15.9% (12.9% − 19.0%)	14.9% (11.9% − 17.8%)	0.51	1,301	n.s.	d = .03
% Medium HSI	76.6% (73.0% − 80.1%)	77.5% (74.0% − 81.1%)	0.39	1,301	n.s.	d = −.02
% High HSI	7.5% (5.2% − 9.8%)	7.6% (5.2% − 10.0%)	0.00	1,301	n.s.	d = .00