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MMWR — Trends in Cigarette Smoking Among High
School Students — United States, 1991–2001
MMWR Highlights
May
17, 2002 / Vol. 51 / No. 19
- 28.5 percent of high school students currently smoke cigarettes, down
from 36.4 percent in 1997 and 34.8 percent in 1999. Current smoking
is defined as having smoked on one or more days of the 30 days preceding
the survey.
- If teen smoking prevalence continues to decline
at the current rate, the United States could achieve the 2010 national
health objective of reducing current smoking rates among high school
students to 16 percent.
- Lifetime cigarette use among high school
students is 63.9 percent, down from 70.4 percent in 1999.
- Current frequent smoking, defined as smoking on
at least 20 of the 30 days preceding the survey, decreased from 16.8
percent in 1999 to 13.8 percent in 2001.
- In 2001, as in previous years, white and
Hispanic students were significantly more likely than black students to
report current smoking.
MMWR — Trends in Cigarette
Smoking Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2001 51(19)
May
17, 2002
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