Table 1.

Prevalence of tobacco use among students aged 13-15 years by sex, Korea, 2013

Characteristic	Total	Boys	Girls
Smoked tobacco use
Ever cigarette smokers1	17.8 (15.1, 20.9)	25.1 (21.2, 29.4)	9.9 (7.8, 12.4)
Current cigarette smokers2	5.2 (4.2, 6.3)	7.5 (5.8, 9.7)	2.6 (1.9, 3.5)
Ever smokers of other tobacco products3	3.8 (2.9, 4.9)	4.9 (3.7, 6.4)	2.5 (1.6, 3.9)
Current smokers of other tobacco products4	1.3 (0.8, 2.1)	1.8 (1.1, 2.8)	0.7 (0.3, 2.0)
First smoked cigarettes before the age of 10 years5	8.3 (5.5, 11.2)	7.4 (4.1, 10.8)	9.3 (4.1, 14.5)
Smokeless tobacco use
Ever smokeless tobacco users6	2.0 (1.3, 2.9)	2.4 (1.6, 3.6)	1.5 (0.9, 2.6)
Current smokeless tobacco users7	0.9 (0.4, 1.9)	0.9 (0.4, 2.0)	0.9 (0.4, 2.0)
Susceptibility
Never tobacco users susceptible to tobacco use8	12.3 (10.8, 14.1)	13.1 (11.0, 15.7)	11.6 (9.6, 14.0)

Source from Global Youth Tobacco Survey, 2013.

Values are presented as % (95 confidence interval).

¹Percentage of youth who reported ever having smoked cigarettes.

²Percentage of youth who reported currently smoking cigarettes.

³Percentage of youth who reported ever having smoked tobacco products other than cigarettes.

⁴Percentage of youth who reported currently smoking tobacco products other than cigarettes.

⁵Percentage of ever cigarette smokers who first smoked cigarettes before the age of 10 years.

⁶Percentage of youth who reported ever having used any smokeless tobacco products.

⁷Percentage of youth who reported currently using smokeless tobacco products.

⁸Percentage of never tobacco users who reported being susceptible to using tobacco in the future.