Cummings K M, Shah D
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1995 Jul 21;44(28):521-5.
The evaluation of efforts to prevent tobacco use among adolescents requires accurate surveillance of both smoking prevalence and smoking initiation rates. Although several surveillance systems provide timely data about adolescent smoking prevalence (1), data characterizing rates of smoking initiation among adolescents have been limited. To improve characterization of trends in smoking initiation among young persons, data from the Tobacco Use Supplement of the 1992 and 1993 Current Population Surveys (CPS) (2) were used to estimate smoking initiation rates for persons who were adolescents (aged 14-17 years) or young adults (aged 18-21 years) during 1980-1989. This report summarizes the results of that analysis.
评估预防青少年吸烟的工作成效需要准确监测吸烟率和开始吸烟率。虽然有几个监测系统提供了关于青少年吸烟率的及时数据（1），但有关青少年开始吸烟率的数据一直很有限。为了更好地描述年轻人开始吸烟的趋势，利用了1992年和1993年当期人口调查（CPS）烟草使用补充调查的数据（2）来估计1980 - 1989年期间处于青少年（14 - 17岁）或青年（18 - 21岁）阶段的人群的开始吸烟率。本报告总结了该分析结果。
