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Students in grades 6 to 12 who who report having ever tried alternative tobacco and nicotine products

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Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2023-2024 Academic Year 2021-2022
Province
New Brunswick
12.3
12.1 - 12.6
12.2
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
11.1
10.7 - 11.5
10.3
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
12.0
11.4 - 12.5
12.2
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
12.0
11.5 - 12.5
11.6
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
14.3
13.1 - 15.5
15.5
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
15.4
13.7 - 17.1
17.2
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
14.8
13.8 - 15.8
14.4
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
15.3
14.1 - 16.5
15.7
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
13.5
12.1 - 14.9
13.3
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
17.0
15.4 - 18.6
15.3
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
14.8
12.5 - 17.1
14.7
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
15.6
13.0 - 18.2
17.1
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
16.2
13.6 - 18.7
20.8
Dieppe and Memramcook
9.3
8.2 - 10.5
7.2
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
17.5
13.9 - 21.0
14.1
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
13.1
11.4 - 14.8
13.0
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
12.9
11.5 - 14.3
15.3
Fredericton
10.4
9.7 - 11.1
9.0
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
3.2
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
14.3
12.4 - 16.2
15.1
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
21.4
16.9 - 25.8
18.4
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
18.9
15.6 - 22.2
28.8
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
17.6
14.8 - 20.5
14.3
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
15.4
14.1 - 16.7
15.9
Moncton
9.7
9.1 - 10.3
8.8
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
17.1
14.1 - 20.0
20.1
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
15.1
11.7 - 18.6
13.8
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
4.2
2.6 - 5.8
12.3
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
11.9
10.6 - 13.2
10.6
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
20.5
17.5 - 23.6
20.3
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
12.4
11.4 - 13.4
10.7
Riverview and Coverdale
9.0
7.8 - 10.3
10.5
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
15.3
13.0 - 17.6
13.5
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
11.7
11.0 - 12.5
13.3
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
15.9
13.8 - 18.1
15.6
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
9.7
8.1 - 11.3
9.1
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
19.9
17.1 - 22.7
18.1
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
12.7
10.5 - 14.9
13.7
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
10.7
9.0 - 12.4
13.3
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
14.1
12.2 - 15.9
11.3
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
13.4
11.6 - 15.2
12.5
School districts
Anglophone East School District
11.5
10.9 - 12.1
11.0
Anglophone North School District
17.6
16.5 - 18.6
18.4
Anglophone South School District
12.1
11.5 - 12.6
12.2
Anglophone West School District
12.5
12.0 - 13.1
11.9
Anglophone sector
12.7
12.4 - 13.0
12.5
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
14.5
13.6 - 15.4
14.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
14.5
13.2 - 15.7
16.0
District scolaire francophone Sud
8.6
8.1 - 9.2
8.1
Francophone sector
11.4
10.9 - 11.9
11.3
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
4.6
4.4 - 4.8
4.1
Grades 9 to 12
17.7
17.3 - 18.1
18.0
Gender
Female
12.5
12.1 - 12.9
12.2
Male
12.1
11.7 - 12.4
11.7
Non-binary
20.1
17.8 - 22.5
15.5
Sex at birth
Female
12.7
12.3 - 13.0
12.5
Male
11.9
11.5 - 12.2
11.8
2SLGBTQIA+ status
2SLGBTQIA+
17.2
16.3 - 18.0
15.5
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
23.2
21.9 - 24.4
21.8
Immigrant
Immigrants
10.4
9.7 - 11.1
11.1
Disability or special need
Disability or special need
16.4
15.3 - 17.4
n/a
Racialized groups
Racialized groups
10.9
10.3 - 11.5
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 6 to 12 who who report having ever tried alternative tobacco and nicotine products.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness and Education Survey - Grades 6-12

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who selected "yes, to at least 1 of the 7 response options" by the "total number of respondents" to the question: Have you ever tried any of the following? Smoking little cigars or cigarillos (plain or flavoured), smoking cigars (not including little cigars or cigarillos, plain or flavoured), smoking roll-your-own cigarettes (tobacco only, in rolling papers), using heated tobacco products, using smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, pinch, snuff, or snus), using a water-pipe (hookah) to smoke sheesha (herbal or tobacco) or using blunt wraps (a tube made of tobacco used to roll cigarette tobacco)

Notes

Users are advised to exercise caution if comparing data from the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area to other New Brunswick communities. The data for the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area is based on students in grades 6 to 8, while data from the other communities are based on students in grades 6 to 12. Survey results are assigned to communities based on the location of the school. The community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area does not have any schools with grades 9 to 12.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Lower is better

NBHC code

SH_SMOAL_1

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