Current Tobacco Use:

Adult Tobacco Use

Adults aged 15 and older who currently use tobacco
(GATS 2013)
Tobacco Use
No Tobacco Use
7.9%
11.7%
Men
4.6%
Women

Youth Tobacco Use

Students aged 13-15 who currently use tobacco
(GYTS 2018)
Tobacco Use
No Tobacco Use
10.5%
11.7%
Boys
9.4%
Girls

Adult

(GATS 2013)
--

Percentage of adults age 15 years or older who currently use electronic cigarettes on a daily basis or less than daily basis

13.6%

Percentage of adults age 15 years or older who visited and were exposed to secondhand smoke at four major locations in the past 30 days: government buildings, health care facilities, restaurants, and public transportation

62.9%

Percentage of adults age 15 years or older who currently smoke tobacco and are intending to quit smoking tobacco in the future

31.7%

Percentage of adults age 15 years or older who currently smoke tobacco that noticed health warning labels on cigarette packaging in the past 30 days and were considering quitting because of the health warning labels

8.7%

Percentage of adults age 15 years or older who noticed any advertisements or signs promoting cigarettes in stores where cigarettes are sold in the past 30 days

2.25

The average price of a pack of 20 manufactured cigarettes that current adult smokers age 15 years or older paid at their last purchase of cigarettes*


Youth

(GYTS 2018)
N/A

Percentage of students age 13-15 who used electronic cigarettes in the past 30 days

30.0%

Percentage of students age 13-15 who were exposed to tobacco smoke in enclosed public places including schools, shops, restaurants, shopping malls, and movie theaters including in the past 7 days

--

Percentage of students age 13-15 who currently smoke tobacco and reported they wanted to stop smoking now

33.1%

Percentage of students age 13-15 who currently smoke tobacco and thought about quitting in the past 30 days because of health warning labels on cigarette packaging

22.2%

Percentage of students age 13-15 who saw any tobacco marketing at point of sale in the past 30 days

--

Percentage of students age 13-15 who currently smoke tobacco and last bought cigarettes as individual sticks in the past 30 days

"N/A" indicates that the question was not asked in the survey.
"--" indicates estimates were suppressed due to insufficient sample size.
Low prevalence (e.g., <0.05%) is rounded down and shown as 0.0%.
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