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Smoking Behavior Among U.S. High School Students, 1991–2011

The data in these two tables reveal many trends. For example, do you see that African American adolescents are much less likely to smoke than Hispanics or European Americans, but that this ethnic advantage is decreasing? Are you surprised to see that European American females smoke more than European American males?

Table : Percentage of High School Students Who Reported Smoking Cigarettes

Smoking Behavior	1991	1995	1999	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011
Lifetime (ever smoked)	70.1	71.3	70.4	58.4	54.3	50.3	46.3	44.7
Current (smoked at least once in past 30 days)	27.5	34.8	34.8	21.9	23.0	20.0	19.5	18.1
Current frequent (smoked 20 or more times in past 30 days)	12.7	16.1	16.8	9.7	9.4	8.1	7.3	6.4

Table : Percentage of High School Students Who Reported Smoking Cigarettes, by Sex, Ethnicity, and Grade

Characteristic	1991	1995	1999	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011
Sex
Female	27.3	34.3	34.9	21.9	23.0	18.7	19.1	16.1
Male	27.6	35.4	34.7	21.8	22.9	21.3	19.8	19.9
Ethnicity
European American, non-Hispanic	30.9	38.3	38.6	24.9	25.9	23.2	22.5	20.3
Female	31.7	39.8	39.1	26.6	27.0	22.5	22.8	18.9
Male	30.2	37.0	38.2	23.3	24.9	23.8	22.3	21.5
African American, non-Hispanic	12.6	19.2	19.7	15.1	12.9	11.6	9.5	10.5
Female	11.3	12.2	17.7	10.8	11.9	8.4	8.4	7.4
Male	14.1	27.8	21.8	19.3	14.0	14.9	10.7	13.7
Hispanic	25.3	34.0	32.7	18.4	22.0	16.7	18.0	17.5
Female	22.9	32.9	31.5	17.7	19.2	14.6	16.7	15.2
Male	27.9	34.9	34.0	19.1	24.8	18.7	19.4	19.5
Grade
9th	23.2	31.2	27.6	17.4	19.7	14.3	13.5	13.0
10th	25.2	33.1	34.7	21.8	21.4	19.6	18.3	15.6
11th	31.6	35.9	36.0	23.6	24.3	21.6	22.3	19.3
12th	30.1	38.2	42.8	26.2	27.6	26.5	25.2	25.1
Source: MMWR, 2012.

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