Corrected Data Table 3
Tobacco Use, Access, and Exposure to Tobacco in Media Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2004. MMWR Vol. 54/ No 12, April 1, 2005
TABLE 3. Percentage of students in middle school (grades 6–8) and high school (grades 9–12) who reported being exposed to tobacco-related media and advertising, and current cigarette smokers aged < 18 years who tried to buy cigarettes in a store, by sex and race/ethnicity—National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2004
| All Students | Current cigarette smokers* aged < 18 years |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saw actors on television or in movies using tobacco | Saw advertisements for tobacco products on the Internet | Were not asked to show proof of age when purchasing cigarettes | Were not refused purchase because of age | |||||
| Char- acter- istic |
% | (95% CI§) | % | (95% CI§) | % | (95% CI§) | % | (95% CI§) |
| Middle School | ||||||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 78.4§ | (±1.6) | 33.8§ | (±1.7) | 64.4 | (±7.8) | 66.9 | (±7.2) |
| Female | 77.2§ | (±1.8) | 34.4§ | (±2.2) | 75.3 | (±7.7) | 69.8 | (±6.6) |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 78.5§ | (±1.9) | 34.3§ | (±2.2) | 76.7 | (±8.6) | 72.8 | (±8.2) |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 76.9§ | (±2.2) | 32.0§ | (±2.3) | 65.9 | (±12.2) | 64.8 | (±9.7) |
| Hispanic | 77.9§ | (±1.7) | 36.5§ | (±2.0) | 60.0 | (±9.6) | 61.5 | (±8.8) |
| Asian | 74.2§ | (±4.2) | 28.1§ | (±5.1) | __¶ | __¶ | __¶ | __¶ |
| Total (Middle School) | 77.8§ | (±1.5) | 34.1§ | (±1.6) | 69.9 | (±6.1) | 68.5 | (±5.4) |
| High School | ||||||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 85.9§ | (±1.2) | 38.4§ | (±1.7) | 58.1 | (±4.5) | 52.7 | (±4.0) |
| Female | 87.4§ | (±1.1) | 38.9§ | (±1.9) | 70.0§ | (±6.4) | 70.8 | (±5.1) |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 87.0§ | (±1.3) | 37.6§ | (±1.8) | 62.6 | (±6.0) | 61.0 | (±4.2) |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 85.4§ | (±1.7) | 38.5 | (±2.6) | 74.6 | (±8.9) | 70.9 | (±9.1) |
| Hispanic | 86.2§ | (±1.3) | 44.5§ | (±2.3) | 61.7 | (±5.8) | 54.5 | (±6.6) |
| Asian | 86.3§ | (±3.5) | 40.6 | (±4.2) | __¶ | __¶ | __¶ | __¶ |
| Total (High School) | 86.6§ | (±0.9) | 38.6§ | (±1.4) | 63.4 | (±4.8) | 61.2 | (±3.3) |
* Used tobacco on at least 1 day during the 30 days preceding the survey.
† Cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes, bidis (leaf-wrapped,
flavored cigarettes from India), or kreteks (clove cigarettes).
§ Confidence interval.
¶ Significant difference (p<0.05), 2004 versus 2002.
