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Reduce the proportion of nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.

Target: 45 percent.

Baseline: 65 percent of nonsmokers aged 4 years and older had a serum
cotinine level above 0.10 ng/mL in 1988–94 (age adjusted to the year 2000
standard population).

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CDC, NCHS.


 

Nonsmokers Aged 4 Years and Older,
1988–94

Serum Cotinine
Levels >0.10 ng/mL

Percent

TOTAL

65

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native

DSU

Asian or Pacific Islander

DSU

Asian

DNC

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific
Islander

DNC

Black or African American

81

White

63

 

Hispanic or Latino

DSU

Mexican American

53

Not Hispanic or Latino

66

Black or African American

81

White

63

Gender

Female

61

Male

69

Education level (aged 25 years and older)

Less than high school

71

High school graduate

67

At least some college

55

Sexual orientation

DNC

Select populations

Age groups (not age adjusted)

4 to 11 years

68

12 to 19 years

69

20 to 44 years

67

45 to 64 years

65

65 years and older

51

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.