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Table 5 Total cigarette smoking prevalence and annualized rates of change by income quintile, 1996-2012

From: Cigarette smoking prevalence in US counties: 1996-2012

 

Income quintile, 1996

Median annualized rate of change, 1996-2012 (%)*

Median age-standardized total smoking prevalence, 1996 (%)*

Median age-standardized total smoking prevalence, 2012 (%)*

Counties with statistically significant declines between 1996 and 2012 (%)

Males

1st quintile

-0.5 (-2.4, 1.1)

32.1 (22.8, 40.7)

29.6 (17.5, 37.9)

14.1

2nd quintile

-0.8 (-2.3, 0.7)

30.5 (20.4, 39.5)

27.2 (18.1, 34.8)

22.7

3rd quintile

-0.9 (-2.4, 0.4)

29.4 (19.7, 41.5)

25.6 (14.8, 41.2)

34.6

4th quintile

-1.1 (-2.8, 0.3)

29.0 (17.5, 37.9)

24.5 (12.8, 37.5)

52.2

5th quintile

-1.4 (-4.5, 0.0)

27.3 (15.5, 42.6)

21.8 (9.9, 41.5)

75.4

Females

1st quintile

-0.3 (-4.1, 1.4)

24.6 (14.0, 36.8)

23.6 (8.6, 36.5)

4.2

2nd quintile

-0.4 (-2.5, 1.6)

24.8 (14.3, 35.7)

23.2 (11.7, 32.4)

5.1

3rd quintile

-0.5 (-2.7, 1.1)

24.4 (13.6, 33.2)

22.2 (11.8, 36.2)

8.2

4th quintile

-0.7 (-3.0, 1.7)

23.9 (11.0, 35.1)

21.4 (9.1, 31.9)

18.4

5th quintile

-1.2 (-3.7, 0.9)

22.5 (9.0, 36.7)

18.7 (5.8, 40.8)

45.2

  1. *Numbers in parentheses are the minimum and maximum.