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For this reason, this study sought to determine the frequency and factors of cigarette smoking among men in the region.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Data from recent demographic and health surveys carried out in ten East African countries between 2015 and 2022 were analyzed in this study. Data from 87,022 men was collected. The key factors affecting the smoking rates in the area were investigated using binary and multiple multinomial logistic regression. To ascertain if variables were statistically significant in the final model for binary regression and multiple regression, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009values of \u2264\u20090.2 and &lt;\u20090.05 were used respectively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Overall, about 14.69% of people currently smoke cigarettes. Of this about 11.03 (95% CI\u2009=\u200910.82, 11.24) was for daily active tobacco use. As compared to &lt;\u200926-year-old men, men with an age range of 26\u201335 years (RRR\u2009=\u20092.17, 95% CI: 2.01,2.34), 36\u201345 years (RRR\u2009=\u20092.82, 95% CI: 2.60, 3.07), and &gt;\u200945 years old (RRR\u2009=\u20093.68, 95% CI: 3.38, 4.02), were using cigarettes daily rather than no-smoking cigarettes. Men who had begun their first sexual intercourse at the age of 7\u201319 years (RRR\u2009=\u20096.27,95% CI, 5.35,7.35), 20\u201325 years (RRR\u2009=\u20094.01, 95% CI, 3.40,4.72), and greater than 25 years old (RRR\u2009=\u20093.08, 95% CI, 2.55,3.71) have shown a higher relative risk ratio to smoke cigarette daily rather than using not smoke cigarette respectively, married (RRR\u2009=\u20090.86, 95% CI, 0.79,0.93), divorced or widowed (RRR\u2009=\u20092.51, 95% CI, 2.27,2.77), middle wealth index (RRR\u2009=\u20092.11, 95% CI 1.98,2.24), and rich (RRR\u2009=\u20091.44, 95% CI, 1.34,1.54), secondary\/higher education (RRR\u2009=\u20090.72, 05% CI, 0.66,0.77), rural men (RRR\u2009=\u20090.69, 95% CI, 0.65,0.73), employed men (RRR\u2009=\u20091.26,95% CI, 1.17,1.36), mass media exposure (RRR\u2009=\u20090.76, 95% CI, 0.73,0.81), men who have one sex partner (RRR\u2009=\u20091.23,95% CI,1.13,1.35), and more than one sex partner (RRR\u2009=\u20091.63, 95% CI, 1.47,1.79) more times as compared to those participants who had no sex partner respectively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Men in East African nations were substantially more likely to smoke cigarettes if they were older, had less education, had a higher wealth index, were divorced or widowed, had many sexual relationships, had early sexual activity, resided in an urban area, were employed, or had no media exposure. 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