Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

18.7

(31.8 M)

20.5

(6.2 M) 18.2

(6.7 M) 13.8

(2.3 M)

White Black Hispanic Other

P E R C E N T

* In the past 30 days.

Source: CASA Columbia analysis of The National Survey on

Drug Use and Health(NSDUH), 2010.

Figure 3.E

Current* Risky Tobacco Use

Among Individuals Ages 12+ by Race/Ethnicity,

2010

Percent (Number in Millions)

18.5

(47.0 M)

9.0

(2.2 M)

30.4

(10.4 M)

17.6

(34.5 M)

Total 12 to 17 18 to 25 26+

P E R C E N T

* In the past 30 days.

Source: CASA Columbia analysis of The National Survey on

Drug Use and Health(NSDUH), 2010.

Figure 3.D

Current* Risky Tobacco Use

Among Individuals Ages 12+, 2010

Percent (Number in Millions)

Risky Tobacco Use ......................................................................................................

In 2010, 18.5 percent of the U.S. population
ages 12 and older (47.0 million)^ reported current

risky use* of a tobacco product:

 Cigarettes: 14.0 percent (35.5
million);

 Cigars: 4.2 percent (10.6 million);

 Smokeless tobacco products: 3.0
percent (7.7 million); and

 Pipe tobacco: 0.7 percent (1.7
million).† 16

The majority (59.1 percent) of risky
tobacco users‡ also are risky users of
alcohol or other drugs. While not having
addiction involving nicotine, 18.2
percent of risky tobacco users have
addiction involving alcohol and/or other
drugs.^17

Among all age groups, 18- to 25- year
olds have the highest rate of risky
tobacco use.^18 (Figure 3.D)

Men are nearly twice as likely as women
to be risky tobacco users (24.1 percent,
29.7 million vs. 13.3 percent, 17.3
million).^19

• Used a tobacco product in the past 30 days but do

not meet criteria for addiction involving nicotine
(i.e., nicotine dependence, as defined by the NDSS).
† These percentages represent the proportion of the

U.S. population ages 12 and older reporting risky use
of each type of tobacco product. These percentages
do not add up to the total of 18.5 percent because of
multiple substance use. Nationally representative
data on the use of water/ hookah pipes to smoke
tobacco are not available.
‡ Who do not have addiction involving nicotine.

Risky tobacco use is slightly higher among

blacks than among whites and Hispanics; risky

use in these groups is higher than among persons

of other races/ethnicities.^20 (Figure 3.E)