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Table 5 Marginal treatment effects of smoking on BMI (average effect of smoking participation on BMI category)

From: An empirical investigation of the impact of smoking on body weight using an endogenous treatment effects model approach: the role of food consumption patterns

BMI categories

Full sample

Males

Females

Underweight

−0.037

− 0.022

− 0.034

[− 0.173, 0.000]

[−0.118, 0.000]

[−0.134, 0.000]

Normal weight

−0.243

−0.245

− 0.172

[−0.273, 0.000]

[−0.278, 0.000]

[−0.196, 0.000]

Overweight

0.049

0.032

0.054

[−0.121, 0.172]

[− 0.133, 0.185]

(−0.050, 0.112]

Obese

0.231

0.236

0.151

[0.000, 0.310]

[0.000, 0.308]

[0.000, 0.217]

  1. aConfidence intervals are reported in brackets
  2. (Statistically significant estimates of smoking are highlighted in bold)
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Nutrition Journal

ISSN: 1475-2891

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