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Students in grades 6 to 12 who report having ever tried smoking cigars (not including 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
7.0
6.8 - 7.2
6.6
8.9
10.8
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
6.3
5.9 - 6.6
5.8
8.5
9.4
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
6.6
6.2 - 7.1
6.0
8.1
9.7
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
5.9
5.5 - 6.3
5.6
7.6
10.8
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
9.2
8.2 - 10.2
9.8
11.0
12.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
10.5
9.0 - 12.1
10.1
12.3
11.5
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
9.9
9.0 - 10.8
9.0
11.6
13.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
9.4
8.4 - 10.5
9.2
11.3
13.8
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
8.1
6.9 - 9.3
7.7
12.2
7.3
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
10.5
9.1 - 11.9
9.2
13.5
12.5
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
9.9
7.9 - 11.9
7.8
12.9
9.6
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
12.0
9.5 - 14.5
12.1
10.6
19.9
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
11.4
9.0 - 13.9
13.5
11.4
13.2
Dieppe and Memramcook
6.6
5.5 - 7.6
5.0
7.4
10.0
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
10.0
7.0 - 12.9
8.2
9.0
13.2
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
8.1
6.6 - 9.5
8.6
11.1
12.2
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
6.5
5.5 - 7.6
7.5
8.7
11.3
Fredericton
5.1
4.6 - 5.7
4.5
6.8
6.4
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
S
S
S
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
8.7
7.1 - 10.4
7.9
7.7
8.7
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
11.1
7.4 - 14.7
11.2
5.9
10.2
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
15.2
12.0 - 18.4
20.8
14.4
25.4
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
7.9
5.8 - 10.1
8.1
6.6
11.8
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
9.3
8.2 - 10.4
9.0
11.9
14.2
Moncton
5.0
4.5 - 5.4
4.5
6.5
7.6
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
9.0
6.6 - 11.5
7.9
10.7
14.9
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
10.6
7.4 - 13.8
10.7
6.3
9.6
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
1.7
0.6 - 2.8
6.2
5.9
16.2
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
5.9
4.8 - 6.9
4.9
7.6
14.0
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
8.8
6.6 - 11.0
8.9
8.9
16.1
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
7.2
6.3 - 8.0
5.7
7.6
7.4
Riverview and Coverdale
5.2
4.1 - 6.3
4.7
8.3
10.7
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
7.0
5.3 - 8.8
6.9
12.7
8.7
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
6.2
5.6 - 6.9
6.3
8.1
10.6
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
9.2
7.4 - 11.0
10.7
11.4
12.1
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
5.8
4.4 - 7.1
4.7
9.7
9.3
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
14.3
11.7 - 17.0
11.5
16.8
20.5
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
7.3
5.5 - 9.2
7.1
8.1
8.4
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
5.6
4.2 - 7.0
6.7
9.8
10.6
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
8.3
6.7 - 9.9
5.8
9.5
12.8
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
8.9
7.3 - 10.5
7.8
8.2
13.0
School districts
Anglophone East School District
6.0
5.5 - 6.4
5.8
8.2
9.2
Anglophone North School District
10.1
9.3 - 11.0
10.4
13.1
12.9
Anglophone South School District
6.6
6.2 - 7.1
6.0
8.3
9.8
Anglophone West School District
6.1
5.7 - 6.6
5.8
7.9
10.9
Anglophone sector
6.7
6.5 - 7.0
6.4
8.7
10.4
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
10.4
9.6 - 11.3
9.0
10.9
14.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
9.7
8.6 - 10.8
10.2
11.1
12.8
District scolaire francophone Sud
5.5
5.1 - 6.0
4.9
7.4
9.2
Francophone sector
7.7
7.3 - 8.2
7.2
9.2
11.6
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
2.4
2.2 - 2.5
1.7
1.7
2.3
Grades 9 to 12
10.3
9.9 - 10.6
10.1
13.9
16.5
Gender
Female
5.6
5.3 - 5.9
5.4
n/a
n/a
Male
8.3
7.9 - 8.6
7.7
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
10.9
9.0 - 12.9
6.2
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
5.7
5.4 - 6.0
5.3
6.4
n/a
Male
8.2
7.9 - 8.6
7.9
11.4
n/a
2SLGBTQIA+ status
2SLGBTQIA+
7.8
7.2 - 8.5
6.3
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
13.7
12.6 - 14.8
12.9
11.3
16.9
Immigrant
Immigrants
5.7
5.1 - 6.2
5.9
7.3
n/a
Disability or special need
Disability or special need
9.7
8.8 - 10.6
n/a
n/a
n/a
Racialized groups
Racialized groups
6.5
6.0 - 7.0
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 report having ever tried smoking cigars (not including 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 cigars (not including 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_SMOSC_1

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