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Adolescents Smoking in the Crosslight of Other Substance Use and Parental and Peers’ Smoking Behaviors

Table 1

Distribution of substance use status (smoking status, alcohol use, and cannabis use) and parental and Peers’ smoking by gender, age, and total.


	Gender				Age
	Males		Females		14		15		Total
		%		%		%		%		%

Smoking status
Lifetime abst.	756	46.1	909	51.8	893	54.3	772	44.1	1665	49.0
Current abst.	508	31.0	511	29.1	465	28.3	554	31.6	1019	30.0
Occas. smo.	211	12.9	196	11.2	185	11.3	222	12.7	407	12.0
Daily smo.	164	10.0	140	8.0	101	6.1	203	11.6	304	9.0
Alcohol use
Never drinker	537	32.8	571	32.5	638	38.8	470	26.8	1108	32.6
Light drinker	309	18.9	392	22.3	373	22.7	328	18.7	701	20.6
Drinker	793	48.4	793	45.2	633	38.5	953	54.4	1586	46.7
Cannabis use
Never user	1150	70.2	1387	79.0	1316	80.0	1221	69.7	2537	74.7
Experimenter	177	10.8	164	9.3	145	8.8	196	11.2	341	10.0
User	312	19.0	205	11.7	183	11.1	334	19.1	517	15.2
Parental smoking
None	984	60.0	1025	58.4	1018	61.9	991	56.6	2009	59.2
One	464	28.3	493	28.1	433	26.3	524	29.9	957	28.2
Both	191	11.7	238	13.6	193	11.7	236	13.5	429	12.6
Peers’ smoking
None (0)	457	27.9	530	30.2	563	34.2	424	24.2	987	29.1
Few (1)	551	33.6	570	32.5	571	34.7	550	31.4	1121	33.0
About half (2)	338	20.6	345	19.6	273	16.6	410	23.4	683	20.1
Majority (3)	225	13.7	271	15.4	197	12.0	299	17.1	496	14.6
All (4)	68	4.1	40	2.3	40	2.4	68	3.9	108	3.2

Total	1639		1756		1644		1751		3395