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Table 1 Prevalence of tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years, by gender – Greece, 2005

From: Tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years in Greece: the GYTS project

Smoking Prevalence

Prevalence (95% Confidence Intervals)

 

Boys

Girls

Total

Ever smoked cigarettes

34.6 (30.8 – 38.7)

28.9 (26.4 – 31.5)

32.1 (29.4 – 35.0)

Smoked cigarettes before age 10

25.5 (21.8 – 29.5)

21.4 (17.1 – 26.5)

23.3 (20.2 – 26.6)

Current cigarette smoker

11.3 (9.4 – 13.6)

9.0 (7.2 – 11.3)

10.4 (8.8 – 12.4)

Current user of tobacco products other than cigarettes

11.8 (10.1 – 13.8)

8.9 (7.2 – 11.0)

10.9 (9.4 – 12.5)

Current user of any tobacco product *

17.1 (15.0 – 19.4)

14.4 (12.1 – 16.9)

16.2 (14.3 – 18.4)

Current smokers dependent on tobacco †

8.8 (4.5 – 16.5)

10.9 (5.9 – 19.2)

10.5 (7.2 – 15.1)

Students susceptible to initiate smoking in the next year

19.4 (17.1 – 22.0)

19.4 (17.0 – 22.1)

19.5 (17.5 – 21.7) §

  1. * Anyone who is a current cigarette smoker or current user of other tobacco products
  2. † Students reported that they wanted to have first cigarette less than 30 minutes after waking up
  3. § Total includes some students that did not provide information on the gender question