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Quantity and Frequency of Cigarette Users

The NSDUH Report:  Quantity and Frequency of Cigarette Use

Highlights:

  • In 2002,  26 percent of persons aged 12 or older in the United States (61 million persons) were current smokers, that is, smoked cigarettes in the past month. 
  • Among current smokers, whites smoked more cigarettes per day on the days they smoked then did American Indians or Alaska Natives, blacks, Asians, or Hispanics.
  • Current smokers aged 26 or older were more likely to be daily smokers than the two younger age groups of current smokers (i.e., aged 18 to 25 and aged 12 to 17).   Also, a higher percentage of daily smokers aged 26 or older smoked a pack or more per day than did the two younger age groups of daily smokers.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report:  Quantity and Frequency of Cigarette Use,  is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse) conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's NHSDA/NSDUH 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.   Estimates are also available for drug use by state.

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