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Prevalence of tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years, by gender – Greece, 2005 |
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| Smoking Prevalence |
Prevalence (95% Confidence Intervals) |
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| Boys |
Girls |
Total |
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| Ever smoked cigarettes |
34.6 (30.8 – 38.7) |
28.9 (26.4 – 31.5) |
32.1 (29.4 – 35.0) |
| Smoked cigarettes before age 10 |
25.5 (21.8 – 29.5) |
21.4 (17.1 – 26.5) |
23.3 (20.2 – 26.6) |
| Current cigarette smoker |
11.3 (9.4 – 13.6) |
9.0 (7.2 – 11.3) |
10.4 (8.8 – 12.4) |
| Current user of tobacco products other than cigarettes |
11.8 (10.1 – 13.8) |
8.9 (7.2 – 11.0) |
10.9 (9.4 – 12.5) |
| Current user of any tobacco product * |
17.1 (15.0 – 19.4) |
14.4 (12.1 – 16.9) |
16.2 (14.3 – 18.4) |
| Current smokers dependent on tobacco † |
8.8 (4.5 – 16.5) |
10.9 (5.9 – 19.2) |
10.5 (7.2 – 15.1) |
| Students susceptible to initiate smoking in the next year |
19.4 (17.1 – 22.0) |
19.4 (17.0 – 22.1) |
19.5 (17.5 – 21.7) § |
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* Anyone who is a current cigarette smoker or current user of other tobacco products † Students reported that they wanted to have first cigarette less than 30 minutes after waking up § Total includes some students that did not provide information on the gender question | |||
Kyrlesi et al. BMC Public Health 2007 7:3 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-3 |
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