Students in grades 6 to 12 who report having ever tried smoking cigars

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
6.6
8.9
10.8
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
5.8
8.5
9.4
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
6.0
8.1
9.7
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
5.6
7.6
10.8
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
9.8
11.0
12.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
10.1
12.3
11.5
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
9.0
11.6
13.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
9.2
11.3
13.8
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
7.7
12.2
7.3
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
9.2
13.5
12.5
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
7.8
12.9
9.6
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
12.1
10.6
19.9
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
13.5
11.4
13.2
Dieppe and Memramcook
5.0
7.4
10.0
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
8.2
9.0
13.2
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
8.6
11.1
12.2
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
7.5
8.7
11.3
Fredericton
4.5
6.8
6.4
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
S
S
S
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
7.9
7.7
8.7
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
11.2
5.9
10.2
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
20.8
14.4
25.4
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
8.1
6.6
11.8
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
9.0
11.9
14.2
Moncton
4.5
6.5
7.6
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
7.9
10.7
14.9
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
10.7
6.3
9.6
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
6.2
5.9
16.2
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
4.9
7.6
14.0
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
8.9
8.9
16.1
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
5.7
7.6
7.4
Riverview and Coverdale
4.7
8.3
10.7
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
6.9
12.7
8.7
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
6.3
8.1
10.6
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
10.7
11.4
12.1
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
4.7
9.7
9.3
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
11.5
16.8
20.5
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
7.1
8.1
8.4
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
6.7
9.8
10.6
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
5.8
9.5
12.8
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
7.8
8.2
13.0
School districts
Anglophone East School District
5.8
8.2
9.2
Anglophone North School District
10.4
13.1
12.9
Anglophone South School District
6.0
8.3
9.8
Anglophone West School District
5.8
7.9
10.9
Anglophone sector
6.4
8.7
10.4
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
9.0
10.9
14.0
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
10.2
11.1
12.8
District scolaire francophone Sud
4.9
7.4
9.2
Francophone sector
7.2
9.2
11.6
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
1.7
1.7
2.3
Grades 9 to 12
10.1
13.9
16.5
Gender
Woman/Girl
5.4
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
7.7
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
6.2
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
5.3
6.4
n/a
Male
7.9
11.4
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
6.3
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
7.1
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
6.3
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
7.0
n/a
n/a
Race
White
6.9
n/a
n/a
South Asian
2.6
n/a
n/a
Other
7.2
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
6.4
n/a
n/a
Latino
12.2
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
4.1
n/a
n/a
Black
8.2
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
12.9
11.3
16.9
Non-Indigenous
6.3
8.8
10.4
Food poverty
Food poverty
16.2
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
5.9
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
5.9
7.3
n/a
Non-immigrants
6.7
9.0
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
9.8
n/a
n/a
No special need
4.9
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.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness 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.

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NBHC code

SH_SMOSC_1

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