1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse

Table 56. Percentages Reporting About Risk and Availability of Drugs in the Population Aged 12 and Older for California, Arizona, and the Remainder of the United States: 1998  

	POPULATION
Risk/Availability	California	Arizona	U.S. Excluding CA & AZ	Total U.S.
Perceptions of Great Risk
Cigarettes
Smoke one or more packs per day	73.3b	67.3	67.2	67.9
Marijuana
Smoke once a month	35.7b	38.1a	42.7	41.8
Smoke once or twice a week	51.5b	54.2a	58.8	57.9
Cocaine
Use once a month	73.0b	71.4b	76.9	76.4
Use once or twice a week	90.0a	89.2b	92.1	91.8
Alcohol
Four or five drinks nearly every day	77.6	73.5	75.7	75.9
Five or more drinks once or twice a week	55.5	52.6	54.0	54.2
Availability
Fairly or very easy to obtain
Marijuana	56.3	61.1	58.4	58.2
Cocaine	35.5a	43.9a	38.6	38.3
Crack	33.4	38.6	36.0	35.8
Heroin	25.8a	31.0	28.6	28.3
Approached by someone selling drugs in past month	6.9a	7.8b	5.9	6.1

*Low precision; no estimate reported.

^a Difference between estimate and U.S. excluding CA & AZ is statistically significant at the .05 level.

^b Difference between estimate and U.S. excluding CA & AZ is statistically significant at the .01 level.

Source: Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1998.

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