Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Illegal Substance Abuse among Adolescents in Sri Lanka: Results from Sri Lankan Global School-Based Health Survey 2016

Table 2

Prevalence of current use of alcohol consumption, smoking, smokeless tobacco, and illegal substances among the study participants (N = 3173).

	Current use of Alcohol		Current Smoking		Current use of smokeless tobacco		Current use of illegal Substances
	n	(95 CI)	n	(95 CI)	n	(95 CI)	n	(95 CI)
Total	103	3.4 (2.6-4.3)	107	3.6 (2.5-5.0)	69	2.3 (1.5-3.7)	79	2.7 (1.7-4.2)
Age
13-15 Years	49	2.0 (1.4-2.9)	40	2.5 (1.6-3.9)	30	1.5 (0.9-2.6)	46	2.4 (1.4-3.9)
16-17 Years	52	5.8 (4.2-7.9)	55	5.5 (3.7-8.0)	36	4.0 (2.4-6.4)	30	3.3 (1.6 – 6.9)
Sex
Male	81	5.8 (4.6 – 7.1)	92	6.4 (5.2-7.7)	62	4.5 (3.4 -5.6)	58	4.1 (3.1 – 5.2)
Female	19	1.1 (0.6 – 1.5)	12	0.7 (0.3-1.1)	7	0.4 (0.1 – 0.7)	19	1.1 (0.6 – 1.5)

denotes unweighted frequency; denotes weighted percentage; denotes unweighted percentage.