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Trends in Tobacco Use among Adolescents: 2002 to 2008

The NSDUH Report - -Trends in Tobacco Use among Adolescents: 2002 to 2008

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Between 2002 and 2008, the prevalence of past month use of any tobacco product by adolescents declined from 15.2 to 11.4 percent. This decline can be attributed primarily to a decline in past month cigarette use—the most frequently used tobacco product—with 13.0 percent of adolescents using cigarettes in 2002 compared with 9.1 percent in 2008. Despite this decline, the rate of recent initiation of cigarette use (i.e., first-time use of cigarettes in the 12 months before the survey interview among adolescents who had not used them previously) remained relatively stable.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report - -Trends in Tobacco Use among Adolescents: 2002 to 2008, is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use by State.

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