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Monitoring the Future -- Trends in Cigarette Use
HS Senior Class Cohorts of 1995 through 2008



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Cigarette Use Within Cohort -- High School Senior Classes of 1995 through 2008
Lifetime Past Month

Source: Monitoring the Future, 2009, Tables 5-5a, 5-5b and 5-5c, pp.202-13

Trends in Cigarette Use Within HS Senior Cohorts -- Classes of 1995 through 2008
  Lifetime Past Month
Class of: 8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade 8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade
1995 44.0 56.3 64.2 14.3 24.7 33.5
1996 45.2 56.9 63.5 15.5 25.4 34.0
1997 45.3 57.6 65.4 16.7 27.9 36.5
1998 46.1 61.2 65.3 18.6 30.4 35.1
1999 46.4 60.2 64.6 19.1 29.8 34.6
2000 49.2 57.7 62.5 21.0 27.6 31.4
2001 47.3 57.6 61.0 19.4 25.7 29.5
2002 45.7 55.1 57.2 19.1 23.9 26.7
2003 44.1 52.8 53.7 17.5 21.3 24.4
2004 40.5 47.4 52.8 14.6 17.7 25.0
2005 36.6 43.0 50.0 12.2 16.7 23.2
2006 31.4 40.7 47.1 10.7 16.0 21.6
2007 28.4 38.9 46.2 10.2 14.9 21.6
2008 27.9 36.1 44.7 9.2 14.5 20.4

Note: Data has been adjusted chronologically to reflect changes in drug use patterns within each senior class cohort. That is, the 10th grade and 8th grade data are taken from the corresponding 2 years and 4 years prior respectively to the year shown, for each cohort class.


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