Respiratory symptoms and outcomes among cigar smokers: findings from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study waves 2–5 (2014–2019)

Table 3 Associations between filtered cigar and cigarette use status and functionally important respiratory symptoms (Wave 2 – Wave 5 population averaged), PATH Study 2014–2019

Tobacco use status	Functionally important respiratory symptoms (≥ 3 symptoms) Obs = 40,446^a
Tobacco use status	Obs	Weighted % (95% CI)	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Never smokers of cigarettes or filtered cigars Obs = 19,406	1,289	5.9 (5.3, 6.7)	Ref	Ref
Current established filtered cigar smokers Obs = 298	49	14.7 (10.4, 20.3)	4.28 (2.70, 6.80)	2.36 (1.32, 4.20)
Current established cigarette smokers Obs = 20,115	4,659	22.3 (21.3, 23.3)	4.96 (4.27, 5.76)	2.57 (2.15, 3.08)
Current established dual smokers of filtered cigars and cigarettes Obs = 627	153	23.2 (19.2, 27.7)	4.77 (3.55, 6.41)	2.39 (1.69, 3.38)

OR odds ratio, Obs observations
Bolded estimates are statistically significant (p < 0.05)
Ns are unweighted; percentages and ORs are weighted using the Wave 5 all-waves weights for the Wave 1 Cohort
Excludes those with COPD and other non-asthma respiratory diseases
Adjusted for age (18–24, 25–39, 40–54, 55 +), sex, race/ethnicity, education, BMI, cigarette pack years, duration of cigar use, secondhand smoke exposure, past month marijuana use, and current established use of at least one of: ENDS, pipe, hookah, smokeless tobacco, snus. Also adjusted for current established use of traditional cigars and cigarillos
^aOverall Obs represents unadjusted model and does not take into account missingness on covariates. 10,847 observations were missing on covariates in the adjusted model

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