Teen Smoking Statistics
Teen Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Middle School Students
From CDC, for About.com
Current teen smoking statistics for middle school students:
From 2000 to 2002, among middle school students, there was no significant decline in use of tobacco products overall (13.3 percent) or for any individual tobacco product.
Males were more likely than females to use all of the tobacco products, except for cigarettes (10.2 percent and 10 percent respectively).
Cigarettes (10.1 percent) were the most commonly used type of tobacco among middle school students in 2002.
From 2000 to 2002, there were no significant declines in smoking rates for middle school students in all racial/ethnic groups.
The smoking rate among middle school students by race/ethnic groups was relatively equal, with about one of ten, white (10.4 percent), African American (9.4 percent), and Hispanic (9.1 percent), middle school students reporting smoking cigarettes in the past month.
Cigars were the second most prevalent (6 percent) type of tobacco used among middle school students in 2002. Male students (7.9 percent) were more likely to use cigars in the past month, as compared to females (4.1 percent).
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