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TU-3.6

Tobacco Use

TU-3.6 Reduce the initiation of the use of cigarettes by young adults aged 18 to 25 years

Baseline: 8.4 percent of young adults aged 18 to 25 years who had not previously smoked cigarettes in their lifetime first smoked cigarettes in the past 12 months in 2008
Target: 6.4 percent
Target-Setting Method: 2 percentage point improvement
Data Sources:
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), SAMHSA
Data:
Data for this objective HP2020 data for this objective
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Data Details Details about the methodology and measurement of this HP2020 objective
Healthy People 2010 The HP2010 objective with the same definition was 27-03b.
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Revision History:
This objective was revised. Read more about the revision history.
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