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Students in grades 6 to 12 who report having ever tried heated tobacco products

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Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2023-2024 Academic Year 2021-2022
Province
New Brunswick
5.8
5.6 - 5.9
5.4
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
5.2
4.9 - 5.6
4.3
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
6.0
5.6 - 6.4
6.1
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
5.8
5.4 - 6.2
5.6
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
5.2
4.4 - 5.9
6.2
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
7.1
5.8 - 8.5
7.9
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
5.9
5.2 - 6.6
5.1
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
6.9
6.0 - 7.8
6.7
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
5.9
4.9 - 7.0
5.8
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
7.8
6.6 - 9.0
6.7
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
6.1
4.4 - 7.7
7.2
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
4.3
2.7 - 5.8
4.3
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
8.7
6.6 - 10.9
8.7
Dieppe and Memramcook
3.9
3.1 - 4.7
3.0
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
9.7
6.8 - 12.7
8.4
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
4.9
3.8 - 6.0
6.1
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
5.4
4.5 - 6.4
7.2
Fredericton
4.9
4.3 - 5.4
4.2
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
S
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
5.4
4.1 - 6.7
5.9
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
12.9
9.0 - 16.9
10.5
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
5.5
3.5 - 7.5
7.9
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
9.3
7.0 - 11.7
7.7
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
7.0
6.0 - 8.0
6.8
Moncton
4.4
3.9 - 4.8
3.6
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
8.1
5.8 - 10.4
8.2
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
6.1
3.7 - 8.6
5.5
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
2.2
0.9 - 3.5
7.0
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
6.6
5.5 - 7.7
5.3
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
10.4
8.0 - 12.7
10.7
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
6.2
5.4 - 6.9
6.2
Riverview and Coverdale
4.3
3.3 - 5.3
4.3
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
8.4
6.4 - 10.3
5.8
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
5.7
5.1 - 6.3
6.0
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
9.1
7.3 - 10.9
7.6
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
4.7
3.5 - 5.9
2.8
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
6.5
4.7 - 8.4
5.8
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
5.6
3.9 - 7.3
7.7
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
6.5
4.9 - 8.0
8.0
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
7.9
6.3 - 9.4
5.2
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
6.4
5.0 - 7.8
3.9
School districts
Anglophone East School District
5.7
5.3 - 6.2
4.7
Anglophone North School District
8.1
7.3 - 8.9
8.5
Anglophone South School District
6.1
5.6 - 6.5
6.1
Anglophone West School District
6.1
5.6 - 6.5
5.9
Anglophone sector
6.2
6.0 - 6.4
6.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
5.9
5.2 - 6.5
4.7
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
5.1
4.2 - 5.9
6.3
District scolaire francophone Sud
3.7
3.3 - 4.1
3.0
Francophone sector
4.6
4.3 - 4.9
4.1
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
2.3
2.1 - 2.4
1.8
Grades 9 to 12
8.2
7.9 - 8.5
8.1
Gender
Female
5.4
5.2 - 5.7
5.3
Male
5.8
5.6 - 6.1
5.3
Non-binary
11.4
9.3 - 13.4
7.2
Sex at birth
Female
5.5
5.2 - 5.8
5.4
Male
5.8
5.5 - 6.1
5.4
2SLGBTQIA+ status
2SLGBTQIA+
8.3
7.6 - 8.9
7.1
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
12.8
11.7 - 13.8
12.1
Immigrant
Immigrants
4.5
4.0 - 4.9
4.9
Disability or special need
Disability or special need
9.7
8.7 - 10.6
n/a
Racialized groups
Racialized groups
5.3
4.8 - 5.8
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 report having ever tried heated tobacco 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 "using heated tobacco products" 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_SMOHP_1

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