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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs)
Use of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Among Students Aged 13–15 Years—Worldwide, 1999–2005
May 26, 2006 / Vol. 55 / No. 20
MMWR Highlights
- More than 17% of students aged 13–15 years, were current
users of any form of tobacco (i.e., cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff,
dip, cigars, cigarillos, little cigars, or pipes).
- Nearly 9% of students currently smoked cigarettes and 11
percent currently used tobacco products other than cigarettes.
- Tobacco use among students was highest in the Region of the Americas
(22%) and the European Region (19%) and lowest in the
South-East Asia Region (13%) and the Western Pacific Region (11%).
- Boys were significantly more likely than girls to currently use
any form of tobacco products in the Eastern Mediterranean, South-East
Asia, and Western-Pacific Regions.
- Cigarette smoking among students was highest in the European Region
(17.9%) and the Region of the Americas (17.5%) and lowest
in South-East Asia (4%), Eastern Mediterranean (5%), and
Western Pacific Regions (7%).
- While there was no significant differences in cigarette smoking
by gender overall, boys were significantly more likely than girls to
smoke cigarettes in the African, South-East Asia, and Western Pacific
Regions.
- Use of tobacco products other than cigarettes was highest in the
South-East Asia (13.3%) and Easter Mediterranean Regions (12.9
percent) and lowest in the Western Pacific (6.4%) and European
Regions (8.1%).
- Boys were significantly more like to use other tobacco products
than girls overall in the Region of the Americas and South-East
Asia Region.
- Cigarette smoking was significantly higher than other tobacco use
for girls in the Region of the Americas and for boys and girls in the
European Region.
- The use of specific forms of tobacco other than cigarettes varies
among the Regions. In the Eastern Mediterranean, Shisha (flavored tobacco
smoked in hookah pipes) is prevalent; in South-East Asia, bidis, smokeless
tobacco, and waterpipe are popular; in the Western Pacific, betel nut
is chewed with tobacco; in Africa, the pipe, snuff, and rolled tobacco
leaves are common; and in Europe, cigars and smokeless tobacco are prevalent.
- Effective, comprehensive tobacco control programs that include evidence-based
interventions for adolescents are needed to decrease the burden of tobacco-related
diseases worldwide.
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Page last modified 02/28/2007