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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

From: Assessing the Italian version of the respiratory symptom experience scale (IT-RSES) in smokers and former smokers: a validation study

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Tobacco Use Group

Traditional cigarettes

Former

smokers

HTP

E-cigarettes

Never

smokers

All

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Mean

Std Dev

Age

38.88a

15.22

40.15a

14.56

32.52b

11.29

40.38a

13.66

24.67c

5.60

35.32

13.91

Years of smoking cigarettes

Gender

19.99a

15.01

15.77b

12.95

12.67b

11.85

20.67a

14.23

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17.28

13.92

Male

48%

57%

41%

59%

31%

47%

Female

52%

43%

59%

41%

69%

53%

Educational level

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Elementary

8%

5%

3%

7%

1%

5%

High school

16%

19%

10%

21%

1%

13%

Secondary school

41%

51%

42%

51%

32%

43%

University

35%

26%

45%

21%

67%

39%

Health status

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Not Good

23%

24%

20%

27%

13%

20%

Any respiratory condition

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Yes

12%

5%

5%

3%

9%

7%

  1. *Means with different letter superscrips differ significantly from each other