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U.S. students who smoke cigarettes, by gender and ethnicity 2017

Percentage of U.S. high school students who have ever tried smoking cigarettes in 2017, by gender and ethnicity

The data displays the share of American high school students in grades 9 to 12 who stated they have been smoking cigarettes at least once, or tried cigarette smoking, if only with one or two puffs, by gender and ethnicity. During the survey, 27.5% of female student respondents with a Hispanic background stated they have smoked cigarettes at least once or have tried smoking at least once.

Female 27.3 29.1 21.2 27.5
Male 30.7 33 20.8 31.8
Total 28.9 31 21.1 29.7