The association between senior student tobacco use rate at school and alternative tobacco product use among junior students in Canadian secondary schools

Table 2 Summary of school-level senior student (grades 11 and 12) tobacco use rates, 2010–2011, Canada

Tobacco product	Percent of schools with senior current users^a	Senior student tobacco use rate (%)^b
Tobacco product	Percent of schools with senior current users^a	Mean (Std. Dev.)	Minimum	Maximum
Manufactured cigarettes	91.3	15.6 (±11.0)	1.9	100.0
Little cigars or cigarillos	89.9	11.7 (±6.9)	1.7	33.3
Cigars	79.0	9.7 (±10.5)	1.0	100.0
Roll-your-own cigarettes	76.1	7.1 (±4.5)	0.5	20.4
Smokeless tobacco	60.1	5.9 (±5.0)	0.2	27.3
Hookah	66.7	5.5 (±4.0)	0.7	28.6

Note: Data derived from the 2010–2011 National Youth Smoking Survey.
^a138 schools were identified with senior students (grades 11 or 12). Current manufactured cigarette users had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and smoked at least one whole cigarette during the past 30 days; all other current tobacco users had used the respective tobacco product at least once during the past 30 days.
^bExcludes schools with no senior current users.

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