Table 5

Cessation: Global Youth Tobacco Survey 1999–2001

Current smokers
CountryDesire to stopTried to stop this year
( ) Data presented as 95% confidence intervals [SE*1.96].
*Sample size <35. NA, Not available, question was not asked.
Overall median 68.463.1
AFRO
Ghana 2000**
Malawi
    Blantyre 2001**
    Lilongwe 2001**
Nigeria**
    Cross River State 2001
South Africa 199969.1 (7.3)74.6 (5.5)
Zimbabwe
    Harare 1999**
    Manicaland 199964.6 (8.9)54.0 (19.3)
AMRO/PAHO
Antigua & Barbuda 2000**
Argentina
    Buenos Aires 200047.1 (6.9)52.5 (7.7)
Bahamas 2000**
Barbados 199943.4 (15.3)63.5 (6.6)
Bolivia
    Cochabamba 200054.6 (5.5)58.6 (6.7)
    La Paz 200062.6 (5.0)67.7 (6.3)
    Santa Cruz 200070.9 (6.9)58.8 (10.4)
Chile
    Coquimbo 200050.4 (7.0)62.9 (5.7)
    Santiago 200045.0 (3.1059.0 (5.3)
    Valparaíso—Viña del Mar 200048.0 (7.0)56.9 (8.5)
Costa Rica 199957.8 (5.3)63.0 (5.3)
Cuba
    Havana 200156.0 (13.4)63.6 (12.2)
Dominica 200068.7 (13.3)55.7 (13.2)
Grenada 200078.2 (10.6)74.7 (8.2)
Guyana 2000**
Haiti
    Port-au-Prince 200186.3 (15.2)71.8 (18.8)
Jamaica 200179.8 (9.5)70.6 (9.1)
Mexico
    Monterrey 200051.9 (6.9)56.8 (6.2)
Montserrat 2000*60.0 (11.8)
Peru
    Huancayo 200069.3 (6.9)68.1 (8.0)
    Lima 200062.0 (9.9)61.6 (8.5)
    Tarapoto 200084.2 (9.2)79.5 (9.2)
    Trujillo 200079.5 (10.9)78.7 (9.9)
St Lucia 200174.5 (13.2)NA
St Vincent & the Grenadines 200177.7 (10.1)82.9 (11.4)
Suriname 200079.3 (12.4)72.7 (10.5)
Trinidad & Tobago 200071.7 (9.0)76.0 (8.3)
USA 200055.8 (2.5)58.2 (2.2)
Uruguay
    Colonia 200145.7 (14.6)51.6 (18.5)
    Maldonado 200153.7 (12.0)57.4 (9.6)
    Montevideo 200159.8 (7.5)64.5 (5.4)
    Rivera 200167.4 (11.0)61.4 (11.0)
Venezuela 199969.8 (10.8)68.4 (10.7)
Virgin Islands (Am.) 2001**
EMRO
Gaza Strip and West Bank
    Gaza Strip 200164.8 (16.4)62.4 (16.0)
    North West Bank 200168.9 (9.8)74.0 (7.6)
    Middle West Bank 200159.0 (14.7)65.1 (6.6)
    South West Bank 200152.5 (13.7)57.3 (11.1)
Jordan 199940.4 (5.9)78.3 (5.7)
EURO
Poland
    Urban 199973.3 (7.8)72.3 (5.0)
    Rural 199980.9 (4.8)80.1 (6.5)
Russian Federation
    Moscow 199969.2 (3.7)76.1 (3.0)
Ukraine
    Kiev 199951.3 (3.1)56.4 (4.0)
SEARO
India
    Assam 200166.8 (26.0)19.9 (15.2)
    Arunachal Pradesh 200158.7 (16.2)30.9 (17.1)
    Bihar 200068.4 (12.3)59.9 (12.9)
    Goa 2000**
    Maharashtra 2000**
Overall median68.463.1
    Manipur 200119.6 (12.5)10.0 (7.2)
    Meghalay 200156.2 (17.7)39.8 (25.9)
    Mizoram 200184.7 (6.3)79.1 (5.5)
    Nagaland 200180.3 (10.4)52.1 (13.9)
    Sikkim 200127.3 (10.7)8.4 (3.3)
    Tamil Nadu 2000**
    Tripura 200132.9 (24.7)10.7 (9.8)
    West Bengal 200077.0 (18.9)61.9 (14.9)
Indonesia
    Jakarta 200080.5 (7.3)91.0 (4.2)
Nepal 2001**
Sri Lanka 199979.0 (13.6)42.9 (15.4)
WPRO
China
    Chongqing 199972.4 (6.8)63.2 (12.6)
    Guangdong 199962.5 (12.8)62.6 (10.6)
    Shandong 199986.9 (13.6)78.8 (15.3)
    Tianjin 199986.9 (6.3)68.2 (8.4)
Fiji 199978.0 (8.3)78.9 (12.0)
Northern Mariana Islands 200080.7 (5.3)76.8 (4.8)
Palau 200076.8 (11.3)NA
Philippines 200085.2 (3.3)83.1 (3.9)
Singapore 200061.9 (4.9)78.1 (3.2)