Table 2.
Number of cigarettes, smoking debut age, nicotine dependence, snuff/chewing tobacco use, water pipe use, electronic cigarette use, and wish to quit smoking, across smoking status
| Smoking status | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total n=70 243 ( 100) | Daily n=8 223 ( 12) | Weekly¤ n=2 917 ( 4.2) | Occasional# n=20 771 ( 30) | Ex n=2 209 ( 3.1) | Never n=36 113 ( 51) | ||
| Smoking debut age in years mean (SD) | 14 (1.9) | 15 (1.7) | 15 (1.7) | 15 (1.9) | |||
| Number of cigarettes | |||||||
| Daily mean (SD) | 9.3 (7.0) | ||||||
| Weekly mean (SD) | 13.6 (19) | ||||||
| Nicotine dependent* N (%) | 1 935 (24) | ||||||
| Water pipe use N (%) | |||||||
| No | 25 865 (37) | 266 (3.2) | 171 (15) | 3 167 (15) | 411 (19) | 21 850 (61) | |
| Experimental use^ | 36 032 (52) | 5 398 (66) | 1 942 (67) | 14 373 (69) | 1 523 (69) | 12 796 (36) | |
| Often use | 7 667 (11) | 2 387 (29) | 766 (26) | 3 078 (15) | 247 (11) | 1 189 (3.3) | |
| Daily use | 401 (0.6) | 164 (2.0) | 28 (1.0) | 92 (0.4) | 19 (0.9) | 98 (0.3) | |
| E-cigarette use N (%) | |||||||
| No | 43 006 (62) | 1 546 (19) | 811 (28) | 9 312 (45) | 1 149 (53) | 30 118 (85) | |
| Experimental use^ | 23 079 (33) | 5 062 (62) | 1 700 (59) | 10 224 (50) | 944 (43) | 5 149 (14) | |
| Often use | 2 608 (3.8) | 1 197 (15) | 294 (10) | 900 (4.4) | 51 (2.3) | 166 (0.5) | |
| Daily use | 755 (1.1) | 382 (4.7) | 101 (3.5) | 179 (0.9) | 38 (1.7) | 55 (0.2) | |
| Snuff/chewing tobacco use N (%) | |||||||
| No | 51 915 (75) | 4 370 (54) | 1 496 (52) | 13 007 (63) | 1 523 (70) | 31 519 (89) | |
| Experimental use^ | 14 905 (22) | 3 223 (40) | 1 181 (41) | 6 425 (31) | 555 (26) | 3 521 (9.9) | |
| Often use | 1 724 (2.5) | 356 (4.4) | 153 (5.3) | 805 (3.9) | 57 (2.6) | 353 (1.0) | |
| Daily use | 613 (0.9) | 120 (1.5) | 57 (2.0) | 273 (1.3) | 30 (1.4) | 133 (0.4) | |
| Wish to quit smoking N (%) | |||||||
| No | 13 898 (45) | 1 792 (22) | 1 064 (37) | 11 042 (55) | |||
| Yes, but not planned | 12 142 (39) | 4.932 ( 60) | 1 343 (46) | 5 867 (29) | |||
| Yes, within the next 6 months | 1 241 (4.0) | 788 (9.6) | 159 (5.5) | 294 (1.5) | |||
| Yes, within the next month | 3 754 (13) | 700 (8.5) | 335 (12) | 2 719 (14) | |||
*
Based on Fagerströms nicotine dependence scale (short version).
¤
Weekly smokers are defined as smoking at least weekly.
#
Occasional smokers are defined as smoking occasionally (e.g. at parties) and smoking rarely.
^
Experimental use is defined as having tried the type of smoking/tobacco a couple of times.