Table 1.
Frequency distribution by age of initiation and days of smoking within the last month among Iraqi adolescents, Baghdad, Iraq 2012S
| |
Type of tobacco products |
|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Cigarettes |
Shisha |
Pipe |
Cigar |
Bidi |
Smokeless tobacco |
||||||
| (n = 178) | (n = 156 | (n = 109) | (n = 44) | (n = 19) | (n = 26) | |||||||
|
Age of initiation |
N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
|
<10 |
15 |
6.27 |
12 |
7.7 |
6 |
5.5 |
- |
- |
2 |
13.3 |
4 |
15.4 |
|
10-11 |
46 |
19.2 |
47 |
30.1 |
19 |
17.4 |
23 |
52.3 |
6 |
40.0 |
6 |
23.1 |
|
12-13 |
85 |
35.5 |
27 |
17.3 |
33 |
30.3 |
11 |
25.0 |
1 |
7.6 |
9 |
34.6 |
|
14+ |
93 |
38.9 |
70 |
44.9 |
51 |
46.8 |
10 |
22.7 |
6 |
40.0 |
7 |
26.9 |
|
Days of tobacco use in the past 30 days |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1-2 |
91 |
38.0 |
103 |
66.0 |
32 |
29.4 |
22 |
50.0 |
10 |
52.6 |
6 |
23.1 |
|
3-5 |
50 |
20.9 |
10 |
6.4 |
12 |
11.0 |
8 |
18.2 |
4 |
21.1 |
1 |
3.8 |
|
5-9 |
9 |
3.8 |
12 |
7.7 |
10 |
9.2 |
2 |
4.5 |
2 |
10.5 |
2 |
7.7 |
|
10-19 |
20 |
8.8 |
7 |
4.5 |
5 |
4.6 |
2 |
4.5 |
2 |
10.5 |
2 |
7.7 |
|
20-29 |
12 |
5.0 |
14 |
9.0 |
10 |
9.2 |
3 |
6.8 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
15.4 |
| Everyday | 47 | 19.6 | 10 | 6.4 | 40 | 36.7 | 7 | 15.9 | 1 | 5.3 | 11 | 42.3 |