The
NSDUH Report: Quantity and Frequency of Cigarette Use
Highlights:
- In
2002, 26 percent of persons aged 12 or older in the United States
(61 million persons) were current smokers, that is, smoked cigarettes
in the past month.
-
Males were more likely than females to
be current smokers; but among the current smokers, a higher percentage
of females than males smoked daily.
- Among
current smokers, whites smoked more cigarettes per day on the days
they smoked then did American Indians or Alaska Natives, blacks, Asians,
or Hispanics.
- Current
smokers aged 26 or older were more likely to be daily smokers than
the two younger age groups of current smokers (i.e., aged 18 to 25
and aged 12 to 17). Also, a higher percentage of daily
smokers aged 26 or older smoked a pack or more per day than did the
two younger age groups of daily smokers.
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This Short
Report, The NSDUH Report: Quantity
and Frequency of Cigarette Use,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health (formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug
Abuse) conducted by the Office of Applied Studies
(OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA). SAMHSA's NHSDA/NSDUH is the primary source of information
on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use
and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population,
age 12 and older. Estimates are also
available for drug use by state.
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