Table 3

Association between Government Office Region with smoking and high-risk drinking status

	Smoker (n=7509)						High-risk drinkers (n=7869)
	Unadjusted			Adjusted			Unadjusted			Adjusted
	RR	95% CI		RR	95% CI		RR	95% CI		RR	95% CI
	RR	Lower	Upper	RR	Lower	Upper	RR	Lower	Upper	RR	Lower	Upper
Government office region
North East	1.22***	1.10	1.34	0.97	0.88	1.06	1.79***	1.62	1.99	1.67***	1.51	1.86
North West	1.17***	1.08	1.26	0.98	0.91	1.06	1.48***	1.36	1.62	1.42***	1.29	1.55
Yorkshire and the Humber	1.15***	1.06	1.24	1.03	0.95	1.11	1.38***	1.26	1.52	1.35***	1.22	1.48
East Midlands	1.03	0.94	1.13	0.86***	0.79	0.94	0.71***	0.63	0.80	0.69***	0.61	0.78
West Midlands	0.95	0.88	1.04	0.91*	0.84	0.99	0.60***	0.53	0.67	0.77***	0.69	0.87
East of England	0.88**	0.80	0.97	0.86***	0.79	0.94	0.74***	0.66	0.83	0.72***	0.64	0.81
Greater London Authority	0.87***	0.81	0.95	0.85***	0.79	0.92	0.62***	0.56	0.69	0.71***	0.64	0.79
South East	0.85***	0.78	0.93	0.92*	0.84	1.00	1.08	0.98	1.20	1.10	1.00	1.22
South West (reference)
Gender
Male (reference)
Female				0.86	0.83	0.89				0.64***	0.62	0.68
Age
16–24 (reference)
25–34				1.20***	1.13	1.27				0.68***	0.64	0.73
35–44				1.09**	1.03	1.16				0.62***	0.58	0.67
45–54				0.95	0.89	1.00				0.61***	0.57	0.66
55–64				0.74***	0.69	0.78				0.49***	0.46	0.53
65+				0.34***	0.32	0.36				0.24***	0.22	0.26
Ethnicity
White (reference)
Mixed/multiple ethnic group				0.96	0.83	1.11				0.87	0.73	1.04
Asian or British Asian				0.41***	0.38	0.45				0.08***	0.07	0.11
Black African/Caribbean/Black British				0.40***	0.35	0.46				0.25***	0.20	0.32
Other ethnic group				0.80**	0.69	0.92				0.42***	0.31	0.57
Composite SES score
1st quartile (high) (reference)
2nd quartile				1.57***	1.45	1.69				0.95	0.89	1.02
3rd quartile				2.16***	2.01	2.32				0.86***	0.81	0.92
4th quartile (low)				3.13***	2.92	3.35				0.69***	0.64	0.75