Table 1.

Prevalence of tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years, by gender – Greece, 2005

Smoking Prevalence	Prevalence (95% Confidence Intervals)
	Boys	Girls	Total
Ever smoked cigarettes	34.6 (30.8 – 38.7)	28.9 (26.4 – 31.5)	32.1 (29.4 – 35.0)
Smoked cigarettes before age 10	25.5 (21.8 – 29.5)	21.4 (17.1 – 26.5)	23.3 (20.2 – 26.6)
Current cigarette smoker	11.3 (9.4 – 13.6)	9.0 (7.2 – 11.3)	10.4 (8.8 – 12.4)
Current user of tobacco products other than cigarettes	11.8 (10.1 – 13.8)	8.9 (7.2 – 11.0)	10.9 (9.4 – 12.5)
Current user of any tobacco product *	17.1 (15.0 – 19.4)	14.4 (12.1 – 16.9)	16.2 (14.3 – 18.4)
Current smokers dependent on tobacco †	8.8 (4.5 – 16.5)	10.9 (5.9 – 19.2)	10.5 (7.2 – 15.1)
Students susceptible to initiate smoking in the next year	19.4 (17.1 – 22.0)	19.4 (17.0 – 22.1)	19.5 (17.5 – 21.7) §

* Anyone who is a current cigarette smoker or current user of other tobacco products

† Students reported that they wanted to have first cigarette less than 30 minutes after waking up

§ Total includes some students that did not provide information on the gender question