Prevalence of tobacco smoking in a sample of general secondary school students in Cairo and its correlation to other psychiatric disorders

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 1 Gender and socioeconomic status differences in adolescent smokers

Smokers group		Gender		Chi-square test	Socioeconomic status		Fisher’s exact test
		Male	Female	Chi-square test	High N (%)	Low N (%)	Fisher’s exact test
		N (%)	N (%)	χ² p-value Sig.	High N (%)	Low N (%)	p-value Sig.
cig smoking	No	14 (51.85%)	14 (60.87%)	0.41 0.522 (NS)	21 (53.85%)	7 (63.64%)	0.734 (NS)
cig smoking	Yes	13 (48.15%)	9 (39.13%)	0.41 0.522 (NS)	18 (46.15%)	4 (36.36%)	0.734 (NS)
E-cig smoking	No	8 (29.63%)	4 (17.39%)	1.02 0.313 (NS)	10 (25.64%)	2 (18.18%)	1.00 (NS)
E-cig smoking	Yes	19 (70.37%)	19 (82.61%)	1.02 0.313 (NS)	29 (74.36%)	9 (81.82%)	1.00 (NS)
Water pipe smoking	No	5 (18.52%)	11 (47.83%)	4.903 0.027 (S)	13 (33.33%)	3 (27.27%)	1.00 (NS)
Water pipe smoking	Yes	22 (81.48%)	12 (52.17%)	4.903 0.027 (S)	26 (66.67%)	8 (72.73%)	1.00 (NS)