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Students in grades 6 to 12 who reported having ever tried smoking little cigars or cigarillos (plain or flavoured)

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Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2023-2024 Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
9.3
9.1 - 9.6
8.6
11.8
14.8
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
8.3
7.8 - 8.7
7.3
10.4
13.0
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
8.5
8.0 - 9.0
7.7
10.6
13.5
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
8.7
8.2 - 9.2
7.5
10.2
14.9
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
12.1
10.9 - 13.2
12.6
14.9
17.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
14.1
12.4 - 15.9
14.2
20.0
16.0
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
11.8
10.8 - 12.7
11.4
15.9
17.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
12.6
11.4 - 13.8
11.7
16.8
19.6
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
9.3
8.0 - 10.6
10.0
17.5
11.1
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
13.0
11.5 - 14.5
11.6
15.2
17.4
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
13.0
10.7 - 15.2
12.1
20.3
11.0
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
14.8
12.1 - 17.5
13.9
15.3
22.4
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
15.9
13.1 - 18.7
17.3
19.7
20.7
Dieppe and Memramcook
7.2
6.1 - 8.2
5.8
9.4
13.0
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
13.2
9.8 - 16.5
10.5
12.7
17.9
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
11.5
9.8 - 13.2
10.8
14.5
17.9
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
9.5
8.3 - 10.8
11.0
12.3
16.0
Fredericton
7.3
6.6 - 7.9
5.5
8.3
9.1
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
11.2
9.4 - 13.1
11.0
10.4
13.6
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
18.4
13.9 - 22.9
13.5
11.3
14.4
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
16.8
13.4 - 20.1
26.3
21.8
27.9
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
14.7
11.9 - 17.6
12.1
9.8
18.8
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
12.5
11.2 - 13.7
11.7
17.8
20.1
Moncton
6.6
6.1 - 7.1
5.7
8.7
10.5
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
12.6
9.9 - 15.4
11.0
16.1
21.4
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
13.9
10.3 - 17.6
11.8
8.3
14.1
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
2.7
1.3 - 4.2
9.4
10.6
21.7
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
9.2
7.9 - 10.4
6.9
10.7
17.7
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
12.9
10.2 - 15.5
11.7
13.1
22.8
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
8.5
7.6 - 9.4
7.2
8.9
11.5
Riverview and Coverdale
8.1
6.8 - 9.5
6.6
9.8
15.5
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
10.5
8.4 - 12.6
10.2
13.9
14.9
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
8.4
7.6 - 9.1
8.1
11.4
14.1
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
13.2
11.0 - 15.3
12.2
14.8
18.1
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
7.6
6.1 - 9.1
6.4
8.9
10.1
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
17.1
14.3 - 19.8
16.6
21.0
26.4
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
10.1
7.9 - 12.2
9.8
10.7
12.9
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
6.7
5.2 - 8.2
8.3
12.9
15.5
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
11.2
9.4 - 13.0
7.7
12.6
16.2
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
10.9
9.2 - 12.7
9.6
10.4
17.1
School districts
Anglophone East School District
8.5
8.0 - 9.1
7.4
10.6
13.2
Anglophone North School District
13.7
12.7 - 14.7
13.8
20.1
19.3
Anglophone South School District
8.6
8.1 - 9.1
7.8
10.9
13.6
Anglophone West School District
9.1
8.6 - 9.6
7.8
10.5
15.3
Anglophone sector
9.3
9.0 - 9.6
8.4
11.8
14.8
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
12.4
11.5 - 13.3
11.6
14.8
17.7
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
12.5
11.2 - 13.8
13.1
15.2
17.9
District scolaire francophone Sud
6.4
5.9 - 6.9
5.7
8.8
11.3
Francophone sector
9.3
8.8 - 9.7
8.9
11.9
14.9
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
3.1
2.9 - 3.3
2.7
2.9
3.5
Grades 9 to 12
13.7
13.3 - 14.1
12.8
18.1
22.5
Gender
Female
8.6
8.2 - 8.9
7.5
n/a
n/a
Male
9.9
9.5 - 10.2
9.3
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
14.6
12.4 - 16.7
9.6
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
8.7
8.4 - 9.0
7.7
9.6
n/a
Male
9.8
9.4 - 10.1
9.4
14.1
n/a
2SLGBTQIA+ status
2SLGBTQIA+
11.5
10.8 - 12.3
9.3
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
18.5
17.3 - 19.7
16.6
16.1
22.1
Immigrant
Immigrants
7.8
7.2 - 8.5
7.4
10.0
n/a
Disability or special need
Disability or special need
12.2
11.1 - 13.2
n/a
n/a
n/a
Racialized groups
Racialized groups
7.9
7.4 - 8.5
n/a
n/a
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 reported having ever tried smoking little cigars or cigarillos (plain or flavoured).

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 "smoking little cigars or cigarillos (plain or flavoured)" 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_SMOLC_1

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