Former Cigarette Smokers

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Highlights:

• In 2000,  67 percent of those aged 12 or older (over 148 million persons) in the United States reported any cigarette use during their lifetime. 

• Males were more likely than females to report lifetime smoking, smoking at least 100 cigarettes, past year smoking or past month smoking.

• American Indians/Alaska Natives and whites were more likely than persons from other racial/ethnic groups to report all levels of cigarette use.

• Among smokers of at least 100 cigarettes, 42 percent reported not smoking during the past year.

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:  Former Cigarette Smokers   is based on SAMHSA's  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), now called the  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).  The survey is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use and for selected mental health measures by State.

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