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Incidence of Initiation
of Cigarette Smoking—United States, 1965-1996
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The Friday, October 9, 1998 issue of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (MMWR) will contain a study, "Incidence of Initiation of Cigarette
Smoking—United States, 1965-1996." The study found that each day an alarming number
of young people join the ranks of regular smokers. The study, which analyzes retrospective
data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s 1994-1997
National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse, estimated that more than 6,000 persons under the
age of 18 years try their first cigarette each day. The study also found that more than
3,000 persons under the age of 18 years become daily smokers every day.
Other study findings include
- In 1996, more than 1.851 million
Americans became daily smokers, of which an estimated 1.226 million (66.2 percent) were
under the age of 18 years.
- The number of adolescents who become
daily smokers before the age of 18 years increased by 73 percent from 1988 (708,000) to
1996 (1.226 million)—rising from nearly 2,000 to more than 3,000 persons under the age
of 18 years who become daily smokers each day. If the rate of smoking initiation among
young people had held constant since 1988, then 1.492 million fewer persons under the age
of 18 years would have become daily smokers by 1996.
- In the 1960s and 1970s, the rate of
first-daily smoking was highest for persons aged 18-25 years. Since the late 1980s,
however, the rate of first-daily smoking was similar for adolescents aged 12-17 years and
young adults aged 18-25 years.
- Among persons aged 12-17 years, the
incidence of first use of cigarettes per 1,000 potential new users has been rising
continuously during the 1990s and has been steadily higher than for persons aged
18-25 years since the early 1970s.
Incidence of
Initiation of Cigarette Smoking Among U.S.
Teens
— MMWR Highlights
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