The
NSDUH Report:
Cigarette Use among Pregnant Women and Recent Mothers
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Highlights:
- Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2002 to 2005 National Surveys of Drug Use and Health
were examined to compare rates of past month cigarette use among women
aged 15 to 44 by pregnancy status and demographic characteristics.
Regardless of pregnancy status, white women were more likely to smoke
cigarettes in the past month of the survey than Black or Hispanic
women.
- Pregnant
women (17.3%) and recent mothers (23.8%) were less likely to be current
smokers (smoked in past month) than nonpregnant women who were not
recent mothers (30.6%).
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Pregnant women who were current cigarette smokers were more likely
to report smoking cigarettes during their first trimester (22.9%)
than second trimester (14.3%) or third trimester of pregnancy (15.3%).
- Younger
pregnant women were more likely than their oldest counterparts to
smoke cigarettes during their pregnancy: 24.3% of pregnant women aged
15-17 and 27.1% of pregnant women aged 18-25 compared with 10.6% of
pregnant women aged 26-44 smoked cigarettes during their pregnancy
in the past month of the survey.
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This Short
Report, The
NSDUH Report:
Cigarette Use among Pregnant Women and Recent Mothers,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health (NSDUH), 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 & Health 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.
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health
also provides estimates for drug use by State.
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