National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report: Recent Trends in Menthol Cigarette Use.

摘要

Although the overall rate of cigarette smoking has declined in recent years, the rate of past month menthol cigarette use among persons aged 12 or older increased between 2004 and 2010 (from 7.7 to 8.2 percent); during that time period, the rate of past month nonmenthol cigarette use decreased from 17.1 to 14.6 percent. Between 2004 and 2010, rates of menthol cigarette use increased among young adults aged 18 to 25 (from 13.4 to 15.9 percent) and were stable among persons aged 12 to 17 and those aged 26 or older; rates of nonmenthol cigarette use decreased in each of these age groups. More than half (51.7 percent) of recent initiates (those who had smoked a cigarette for the first time in the 12 months before the survey interview) from 2007 to 2010 smoked menthol cigarettes in the past month compared with 41.7 percent from 2004 to 2006.