Table 1
Prevalence of cigarette smoking based on self-report and urinary cotinine concentration, by sex and age group, household population aged 12 to 79, Canada, March 2007 to February 2009

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Table 1
Prevalence of cigarette smoking based on self-report and urinary cotinine concentration, by sex and age group, household population aged 12 to 79, Canada, March 2007 to February 2009 .
Table summary
This table displays the results of Prevalence of cigarette smoking based on self-report and urinary cotinine concentration. The information is grouped by Sex/Age group (years) appearing as row headers and is grouped by Self-report (%, 95% confidence interval(from, to)) and Urinary cotinine concentration (%, 95% confidence interval(from, to)) appearing as column headers using % as a unit of measure
Sex/Age group (years) Self-report Urinary cotinine concentration
% 95% confidence interval % 95% confidence interval
from to from to
Total 18.8 16.3 21.5 19.1 16.4 22.1
12 to 19 7.7NoteE: Use with caution 4.4 13.0 5.8NoteE: Use with caution 3.6 9.1
20 to 79 20.2 17.8 23.0 20.8 18.0 23.9
Male 19.0 15.8 22.7 19.2 15.8 23.1
12 to 19 5.4NoteE: Use with caution 3.1 9.4 4.5NoteE: Use with caution 2.3 8.4
20 to 79 20.9 17.5 24.7 21.2 17.6 25.4
Female 18.6 15.6 22.1 19.0 15.8 22.6
12 to 19 10.0NoteE: Use with caution 5.2 18.5 7.1NoteE: Use with caution 4.6 10.8
20 to 79 19.7 16.6 23.2 20.4 17.1 24.2
E use with caution
Note: Excludes respondents who did not have a valid cotinine test result, reported using a medication with nicotine as an active ingredient in the past month, or reported smoking cigars or a pipe, or using snuff of chewing tobacco.
Source: 2007 to 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey.