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Figure 4.2 is titled "Past Month Tobacco Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2002 and 2003." It is a bar graph, with the following note below the graph: "Statistically significant differences (at 0.05 level) between 2002 and 2003 are denoted by '+.'" The horizontal axis of the graph represents type of tobacco, and the vertical axis represents the percentage using in past month. There are five categories of tobacco: Any Tobacco, Cigarettes, Cigars, Smokeless Tobacco, and Pipes. Within each type of tobacco, there is a bar for 2002 and a bar for 2003. For each type of tobacco and year combination, the percentage of persons aged 12 to 17 using in the past month is as follows:

The percentage of youths using any tobacco in the past month was 15.2% in 2002 and 14.4% in 2003.
The percentage of youths using cigarettes in the past month was 13.0% in 2002 and 12.2% in 2003.
The percentage of youths using cigars in the past month was 4.5% in both 2002 and 2003.
The percentage of youths using smokeless tobacco in the past month was 2.0% in both 2002 and 2003.
The percentage of youths using pipes in the past month was 0.6% in both 2002 and 2003.

None of the differences between 2002 and 2003 were significant at the 0.05 level.

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