Table 2

Prevalence tobacco use and type of tobacco product smoke by gender

CharacteristicsTotal n=10 289%95% CIBoys n=4567
n (%)
Girls n=5722
n (%)
Smoking status
 Never smokers856883.282.50 to 83.913389 (74.2)5179 (90.5)
 Ever smokers171916.716.01 to 17.441177 (25.7)542 (9.4)
 Ex-smokers126412.211.6 to 12.93813 (17.8)451 (7.8)
 current smokers4554.44.04 to 4.83364 (7.9)91 (1.5)
Tobacco products used by ever smokers
 Cigarettes10099.89.24 to 10.39824 (18.0)183 (3.1)
 Hand-rolled cigarettes2792.72.41 to 3.04225 (4.9)54 (0.9)
 Pipes2212.11.88 to 2.44168 (3.6)53 (0.9)
 Cigar2392.32.04 to 2.63185 (4.1)54 (0.9)
 Shisha8348.17.59 to 8.65523 (11.4)311 (5.4)
Smokeless tobacco
 Never users999197.296.9 to 97.54350 (95.4)5641 (98.6)
 Ever users2842.762.24 to 3.0204 (3.7)80 (1.3)
 Current users1291.251.05 to 1.2895 (2.1)34 (0.5)