Table 1. Demographic characteristics of respondents susceptible to cigarette use, cigarette experimenters, and current tobacco users, NYTS, 2012.
| Never-smokers whoare susceptible tocigarette use a (n = 17,888) b | Cigaretteexperimentationc (n = 23,248) b | Current tobacco use d (n = 23,629) b | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle + High School | Middle + High School | Middle + High School | |
| % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | |
| Total | 27.91 (26.99–28.83) | 22.15 (20.37–24.02) | 17.28 (15.86–18.79) |
| Grade | |||
| 6th | 24.18 (21.89–26.63) | 6.30 (5.10–7.76) | 5.16 (4.24–6.28) |
| 7th | 28.39 (26.45–30.41) | 11.70 (9.80–13.90) | 6.76 (5.41–8.42) |
| 8th | 32.00 (29.78–34.29) | 18.26 (15.51–21.39) | 11.11 (9.28–13.25) |
| 9th | 33.12 (30.73–35.60) | 24.78 (21.65–28.20) | 17.71 (15.28–20.43) |
| 10th | 27.27 (24.83–29.86) | 28.91 (25.73–32.33) | 22.43 (19.64–25.49) |
| 11th | 24.70 (22.34–27.22) | 33.04 (29.89–36.35) | 26.09 (23.62–28.73) |
| 12th | 23.95 (21.13–27.02) | 37.06 (33.80–40.44) | 33.12 (30.38–35.98) |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 26.60 (25.23–28.03) | 21.31 (19.31–23.46) | 13.42 (12.03–14.95) |
| Male | 29.24 (28.15–30.35) | 22.98 (21.16–24.90) | 21.02 (19.33–22.81) |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||
| non-Hispanic white | 26.09 (24.77–27.46) | 20.45 (18.29–22.79) | 17.05 (15.36–18.90) |
| non-Hispanic black | 27.02 (24.80–29.37) | 24.21 (20.44–28.43) | 17.87 (15.06–21.09) |
| Hispanic | 34.12 (31.94–36.36) | 26.58 (23.87–29.47) | 18.90 (16.56–21.49) |
| non-Hispanic Other | 26.50 (23.36–29.88) | 20.73 (18.27–23.44) | 14.33 (11.87–17.20) |
NYTS, National Youth Tobacco Survey
a Never-smokers who are susceptible to cigarette use was defined as never tried smoking cigarettes, even one or two puffs and responded other than “definitely not” to the following questions: “Do you think you will smoke a cigarette in the next year?” and “Do you think you will smoke a cigarette soon?” and “If one of your best friends would offer you a cigarette, would you smoke it?”
b Reported n based on univariate analyses with missing values excluded.
c Cigarette experimentation was defined as having puffed on a cigarette at least once but not having smoked a total of 100 lifetime cigarettes.
d Current tobacco use was defined as using on at least 1 day in the past 30 days any of the following tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipe, bidis, kreteks, snus, hookah, roll-your-own cigarettes, dissolvable tobacco products, electronic cigarettes, or some other new tobacco product.