Table 2.
Smoking Patterns at 2-Year Follow-up Among Never Smokers at Baseline, by Gender
| Cigarettea | Boys, N = 868b | Girls, N = 832 | Total, N = 1,700b |
| Never-smoker at baseline: n (%) | 643 (74.1) | 759 (91.2) | 1,402 (82.5) |
| At 2-year follow up | |||
| Never-smoker | 416 (64.7) | 616 (81.1) | 1,032 (73.6) |
| Ever-smoker | |||
| Did not smoke in the past month | 132 (20.5) | 111 (14.6) | 243 (17.3) |
| Current (but not daily) | 55 (8.6) | 27 (3.6) | 82 (5.8) |
| Daily | 40 (6.2) | 5 (0.7) | 45 (3.2) |
| Water pipea | Boys, N = 844b | Girls, N = 811b | Total, N = 1,655b |
| Never-smoker at baseline: n (%) | 564 (66.8) | 675 (83.2) | 1,239 (74.9) |
| At 2-year follow-up | |||
| Never-smoker | 378 (67.0) | 535 (79.2) | 913 (73.7) |
| Ever-smoker | |||
| Did not smoke in the past month | 101 (17.9) | 84 (12.4) | 185 (14.9) |
| Current (but not daily) | 73 (12.9) | 54 (8.0) | 127 (10.3) |
| Daily | 12 (2.1) | 2 (0.3) | 14 (1.1) |
Note. ap < .05 for all comparisons between boys and girls.
b
Numbers differ from Table 1 because of missing data on smoking frequency in Year 2.