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Table 16-1. Smoking status: Estimated prevalence by current industry, U.S. residents age 18 and over, 2000


Industry

Number of Respondents

Current Smokers

Former Smokers

Prevalence (%)

95% Confidence Interval

Prevalence (%)

95% Confidence Interval

Repair services

283

43.4

36.5 - 50.3

19.6

14.5 - 24.7

Eating and drinking places

901

39.7

35.8 - 43.6

12.1

9.6 - 14.6

Automotive dealers and gasoline stations

317

38.9

32.6 - 45.2

18.3

13.4 - 23.2

Construction

1,226

37.4

34.1 - 40.7

18.7

16.2 - 21.2

Food, bakery and dairy stores

434

36.1

31.0 - 41.2

13.5

10.2 - 16.8

Fabricated metal industries, including ordnance

184

34.1

26.7 - 41.5

21.4

14.0 - 28.8

Primary metal industries

114

33.3

23.9 - 42.7

26.1

16.9 - 35.3

Trucking service and warehousing

367

33.2

27.7 - 38.7

17.4

12.9 - 21.9

Food and kindred products

241

32.8

25.7 - 39.9

18.0

11.7 - 24.3

Mining

66

32.6

21.0 - 44.2

22.3

9.6 - 35.0

Machinery, except electrical

303

31.9

25.8 - 38.0

23.2

17.7 - 28.7

Furniture, lumber and wood

207

29.9

23.6 - 36.2

13.8

8.5 - 19.1

Textile mill and finished textile products

185

29.5

21.1 - 37.9

14.9

8.8 - 21.0

Electrical machinery, equipment and supplies

280

29.2

23.1 - 35.3

14.8

9.5 - 20.1

Forestry and fisheries

31

28.3

8.9 - 47.7

16.2

4.4 - 28.0

Business services

1,219

27.0

24.1 - 29.9

16.0

13.5 - 18.5

Other nondurable goods

229

26.7

20.0 - 33.4

24.0

18.1 - 29.9

Other personal services

541

26.7

22.4 - 31.0

18.3

14.6 - 22.0

Other and not specified durable goods

245

26.4

20.5 - 32.3

18.7

13.4 - 24.0

General merchandise stores

363

25.7

20.6 - 30.8

14.7

10.4 - 19.0

Transportation equipment

317

25.4

19.7 - 31.1

22.9

18.0 - 27.8

Railroads

44

24.8

10.5 - 39.1

24.0

9.5 - 38.5

Wholesale trade

703

24.2

20.5 - 27.9

25.0

21.7 - 28.3

Entertainment and recreation services

362

24.2

19.1 - 29.3

16.8

12.5 - 21.1

Other and not specified retail trade

922

23.9

20.8 - 27.0

20.0

17.1 - 22.9

Other transportation

453

23.5

18.6 - 28.4

27.0

21.7 - 32.3

Chemicals and allied products

167

22.9

15.5 - 30.3

23.4

16.7 - 30.1

Banking and credit agencies

421

22.4

17.9 - 26.9

16.8

12.7 - 20.9

Health services, except hospitals

1,107

21.9

19.2 - 24.6

18.8

16.1 - 21.5

Insurance, real estate, and other finance

852

21.0

18.1 - 23.9

22.0

18.7 - 25.3

Communications

334

20.6

15.7 - 25.5

19.7

14.8 - 24.6

Utilities and sanitary

178

20.6

13.7 - 27.5

20.0

12.9 - 27.1

Printing, publishing and allied industries

243

20.3

14.2 - 26.4

25.5

19.4 - 31.6

Agriculture

465

20.2

16.3 - 24.1

17.9

14.0 - 21.8

Public administrations

940

20.1

17.0 - 23.2

24.6

21.5 - 27.7

Private households

170

19.3

11.7 - 26.9

16.6

8.8 - 24.4

Hospitals

823

18.8

15.9 - 21.7

18.0

14.9 - 21.1

Legal, engineering and other professional services

720

18.7

15.2 - 22.2

22.2

18.9 - 25.5

Social services, religious and membership organizations

793

16.9

14.2 - 19.6

20.7

17.6 - 23.8

Other educational services

89

12.8

3.6 - 22.0

30.0

19.6 - 40.4

Elementary and secondary schools and colleges

1,710

11.8

10.0 - 13.6

20.9

18.7 - 23.1

Armed forces

4

0.0

�-         �-

33.3

0.0 - 78.0

TOTAL

20,094

25.0

24.2�- 25.8

19.4

18.8�- 20.0

- No estimates due to no smokers/former smokers among respondents.
NOTE: Industries were classified according to 1995 Standard Industrial Classification System and then regrouped by NCHS. See appendices for source description and methods.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics 2000 National Health Interview Survey.


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