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Roll-your-own cigarette consumption, by ethnic group
Table 5 shows the proportion of 15–64-year-old current smokers who smoked roll-yourown
cigarettes, by ethnic group.
Table 5:
Roll-your-own cigarette consumption among current smokers aged 15–64 years, by
ethnic group, 2009 (unadjusted prevalence)
Ethnic group Prevalence (95% CI) Estimated number
European/Other 60.8 (57.1–64.6) 250,500
Māori 70.8 (66.3–75.4) 109,000
Pacific 50.3 (39.8–60.7) 24,200
Asian 31.3 (17.8–47.5) 11,600
Source: 2009 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey
Notes:
1. Total response ethnicity has been used.
2. Respondents were able to select multiple types of tobacco products, and so the estimates reported in
this table do not represent exclusive use of roll-your-own cigarettes.
After adjusting for age, Māori current smokers were found to be significantly more likely
to smoke roll-your-own cigarettes than current smokers in the total population, while
Pacific and Asian current smokers were found to be significantly less likely to smoke
roll-your-own cigarettes than current smokers in the total population (Figure 14).
There was no significant difference in the age-standardised prevalence of smoking rollyour-own
cigarettes between European/Other people and the total population.
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