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Cigarette Use among High School Students by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 1998 to 2019
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Why Is This Important?
Tobacco use is usually initiated during adolescence. Nearly 90% of adult smokers begin smoking before 18 years of age. 1 Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death, leads to disease and disability, and harms nearly every organ of the body.2
Definition
Percentage of high school (9th-12th grade) students who have used cigarettes on one or more days in the 30 days preceding the survey
Data Notes
The surveys are not conducted annually.Data Sources
- Youth Tobacco Survey, Office of Tobacco Control, New Jersey Department of Health
(http://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/tobacco/) - National Youth Tobacco Survey, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/about-data/surveys/national-youth-tobacco-survey.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of high school student survey respondents who have used cigarettes on one or more days in the 30 days preceding the surveyDenominator:
Total number of high school student survey respondents
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective TU-06
U.S. Target: Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents to 3.4 percent of students in grades 6-12 by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/tobacco-use
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective TU-2.2
U.S. Target: Reduce use of cigarettes by adolescents (past month) to 16.0 percent of high school students in grades 9-12 by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/tobacco-use
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective TU-1b
NJ Target: Reduce the proportion of high school students (grades 9 to 12) who are current cigarette smokers (any use in past 30 days) to 7.4 percent for the total population, 3.6% for Blacks, 7.7% for Hispanics, and 9.0% for Whites by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/tobacco-use.shtml