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Smokeless Tobacco Use, Initiation, and Relationship to Cigarette Smoking

The NSDUH Report - - Smokeless Tobacco Use, Initiation, and Relationship to Cigarette Smoking: 2002 to 2007
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  • SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health provides trend data from 2002 to 2007 on smokeless tobacco use in the general population aged 12 and older. The rate of past month smokeless tobacco use remained relatively stable in the range of 3.0% to 3.3% between 2002 and 2007 among persons aged 12 or older; however, there were increases among certain subpopulations - - in particular, among adolescent males.
  • Among past month smokeless tobacco users, 85.8% used cigarettes at some time in their lives and 38.8% used cigarettes in the past month.
  • Among persons who had used both smokeless tobacco and cigarettes in their lifetime, 31.8% started using smokeless tobacco first, 65.5% started using cigarettes first, and 2.7% initiated use of smokeless tobacco and cigarettes at about the same time.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report - - Smokeless Tobacco Use, Initiation, and Relationship to Cigarette Smoking: 2002 to 2007,  is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).  The survey is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental health measures 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 and for selected mental health measures by State.

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