2005 Tables: Tobacco Product and Alcohol Use - 2.58 to 2.114 (SE), SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies

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Table 2.58C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	80	75	64	63	54	52
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	73	66	59	57	50	47
White	86	72	61	59	48	46
Black or African American	34	33	22	22	16	17
American Indian or Alaska Native	11	8	9	6	7	5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	3	2	2
Chinese	5	7	4	5	3	3
Filipino	6	*	5	3	3	2
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	7	8	5	5	3	4
Korean	5	5	*	4	1	4
Vietnamese	6	*	2	*	1	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	33	33	26	27	19	22
Mexican	41	36	27	29	18	21
Puerto Rican	16	13	11	10	9	7
Central or South American	14	11	10	7	6	6
Cuban	8	6	6	6	5	4
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.58D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.32	0.30	0.26	0.25	0.22	0.21
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.35	0.31	0.28	0.27	0.24	0.22
White	0.41	0.36	0.34	0.32	0.29	0.27
Black or African American	0.72	0.70	0.52	0.51	0.40	0.41
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.43	3.86	3.19	3.05	2.82	2.60
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	3.57	2.85	2.75
Chinese	2.33	3.25	1.94	2.66	1.30	1.62
Filipino	3.74	*	2.93	1.84	2.04	1.29
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	2.99	2.73	2.58	2.03	1.66	1.43
Korean	4.72	4.04	*	3.24	0.95	3.23
Vietnamese	4.28	*	2.01	*	1.00	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.83	0.77	0.64	0.63	0.48	0.51
Mexican	1.04	0.96	0.78	0.81	0.58	0.64
Puerto Rican	1.98	2.18	1.77	1.81	1.59	1.33
Central or South American	2.41	2.23	1.93	1.59	1.33	1.33
Cuban	4.76	3.72	4.19	3.52	3.95	2.54
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.58P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003**
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0000		0.0000		0.0001
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0000		0.0000		0.0000
White	0.0000		0.0001		0.0001
Black or African American	0.0048		0.0624		0.4267
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.0845		0.0958		0.0399
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		0.6605
Chinese	0.6076		0.7681		0.6442
Filipino	*		0.1509		0.3185
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.1742		0.1157		0.2884
Korean	0.5802		*		0.0249
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0002		0.2436		0.6928
Mexican	0.0089		0.4408		0.9771
Puerto Rican	0.0684		0.4343		0.2394
Central or South American	0.0323		0.1225		0.7638
Cuban	0.0045		0.4454		0.1960
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.59C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	106	109	110	114	107	110
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	92	97	92	101	91	97
White	204	180	152	145	133	129
Black or African American	70	69	46	52	40	47
American Indian or Alaska Native	19	14	17	10	14	10
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	14	12	12	9	11	8
Chinese	17	19	12	16	11	13
Filipino	15	19	13	15	12	12
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	17	17	14	13	10	12
Korean	22	14	17	12	16	11
Vietnamese	14	10	10	8	8	8
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	48	50	51	52	48	49
Mexican	85	78	55	59	47	50
Puerto Rican	26	22	21	18	19	17
Central or South American	30	30	20	24	18	20
Cuban	13	12	11	9	10	7
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.59D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.34	0.34	0.35	0.35	0.34	0.34
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.36	0.36	0.36	0.38	0.35	0.37
White	0.36	0.38	0.39	0.44	0.40	0.43
Black or African American	0.92	0.88	0.86	0.86	0.79	0.83
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.54	3.15	3.49	3.41	3.60	3.29
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	3.93	4.48	5.17	5.57	4.89	5.19
Chinese	4.22	4.31	3.25	3.73	3.07	3.39
Filipino	3.74	4.06	3.86	4.58	3.95	4.03
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	3.38	3.28	3.47	2.85	3.06	2.80
Korean	5.20	4.76	4.96	4.99	5.08	4.91
Vietnamese	5.39	5.11	5.11	4.56	4.31	4.47
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.85	0.87	0.91	0.91	0.85	0.86
Mexican	1.05	1.08	1.13	1.10	1.04	1.02
Puerto Rican	2.50	2.63	2.90	2.61	2.66	2.55
Central or South American	2.29	2.34	2.04	2.62	2.06	2.37
Cuban	4.58	4.28	4.94	4.50	4.75	4.24
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.59P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003**
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0000		0.0564		0.0110
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0000		0.0339		0.0055
White	0.0000		0.0376		0.0074
Black or African American	0.2018		0.5656		0.6019
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.7806		0.1916		0.6816
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.9269		0.6911		0.6020
Chinese	0.8685		0.5153		0.8252
Filipino	0.0538		0.1438		0.9041
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.2369		0.6286		0.6439
Korean	0.0351		0.0810		0.0783
Vietnamese	0.0292		0.5178		0.7611
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0060		0.8790		0.7359
Mexican	0.0409		0.5846		0.8581
Puerto Rican	0.2102		0.6346		0.4521
Central or South American	0.0275		0.0550		0.0806
Cuban	0.8808		0.6903		0.3679
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.60C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	570	562	549	527	521	511
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	522	524	521	504	496	488
White	1,178	1,028	552	496	518	467
Black or African American	424	377	236	225	222	213
American Indian or Alaska Native	80	80	38	43	35	39
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	27
Chinese	90	127	31	38	27	31
Filipino	96	112	45	42	41	41
Japanese	85	*	26	14	24	16
Asian Indian	91	67	60	30	56	24
Korean	*	*	*	23	*	21
Vietnamese	*	47	*	35	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	201	218	181	185	172	171
Mexican	268	273	160	164	151	148
Puerto Rican	127	127	79	84	77	78
Central or South American	139	129	83	71	72	66
Cuban	103	72	76	48	60	43
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.60D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.32	0.31	0.30	0.29	0.29	0.28
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.33	0.32	0.33	0.31	0.31	0.30
White	0.33	0.33	0.35	0.34	0.34	0.32
Black or African American	1.25	0.98	0.95	0.91	0.91	0.87
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.01	3.79	3.39	4.34	3.39	3.98
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	5.17
Chinese	4.75	5.07	1.99	2.02	1.70	1.61
Filipino	4.41	5.05	3.19	2.71	2.69	2.63
Japanese	4.95	*	3.27	1.71	3.05	1.92
Asian Indian	4.46	3.30	3.31	1.65	3.20	1.34
Korean	*	*	*	4.41	*	4.01
Vietnamese	*	5.69	*	5.34	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	1.01	1.01	0.91	0.86	0.87	0.79
Mexican	1.29	1.24	1.02	1.04	1.00	0.96
Puerto Rican	2.56	3.10	3.05	3.02	3.02	2.96
Central or South American	3.05	2.49	2.49	2.00	2.31	1.89
Cuban	4.66	3.91	5.02	4.19	4.10	3.77
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.60P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0002		0.1282		0.0672
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0022		0.0995		0.0799
White	0.0333		0.4965		0.4332
Black or African American	0.0868		0.0839		0.0735
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.6298		0.6074		0.5833
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		*
Chinese	0.5740		0.5638		0.6093
Filipino	0.5178		0.5829		0.8957
Japanese	*		0.0276		0.0491
Asian Indian	0.1313		0.0174		0.0168
Korean	*		*		*
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.1004		0.8418		0.7259
Mexican	0.1911		0.9201		0.4472
Puerto Rican	0.7381		0.5460		0.8855
Central or South American	0.0408		0.1518		0.4599
Cuban	0.9895		0.9709		0.9381
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.61C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	585	582	583	564	554	543
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	536	538	552	537	524	517
White	1,220	1,058	602	538	563	504
Black or African American	449	395	251	236	233	222
American Indian or Alaska Native	88	84	45	46	39	42
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	57	47	41	33	32	28
Chinese	93	132	34	40	29	33
Filipino	97	116	49	46	44	42
Japanese	85	*	26	16	24	17
Asian Indian	92	71	62	35	57	28
Korean	*	39	39	26	38	24
Vietnamese	47	48	34	36	33	35
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	210	225	193	196	183	181
Mexican	299	292	181	180	167	160
Puerto Rican	132	131	82	88	80	81
Central or South American	151	134	89	76	74	69
Cuban	104	73	76	50	60	43
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.61D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.28	0.27	0.28	0.26	0.26	0.25
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.29	0.28	0.30	0.28	0.28	0.27
White	0.29	0.29	0.33	0.31	0.31	0.30
Black or African American	1.05	0.83	0.80	0.76	0.77	0.73
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.52	3.13	2.90	3.79	2.85	3.52
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.66	5.33	5.73	4.79	4.70	4.27
Chinese	4.14	4.37	1.88	1.81	1.61	1.50
Filipino	3.93	4.31	2.98	2.53	2.50	2.32
Japanese	4.64	*	3.08	1.82	2.83	1.94
Asian Indian	3.79	2.82	2.84	1.55	2.73	1.27
Korean	*	4.66	4.70	3.54	4.54	3.26
Vietnamese	5.29	4.58	4.08	4.26	3.90	4.15
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.82	0.82	0.76	0.72	0.72	0.66
Mexican	1.01	0.99	0.85	0.86	0.82	0.78
Puerto Rican	2.05	2.58	2.45	2.56	2.43	2.53
Central or South American	2.51	2.07	2.06	1.70	1.89	1.60
Cuban	3.95	3.46	4.20	3.79	3.41	3.40
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.61P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0000		0.0807		0.0290
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0001		0.0659		0.0371
White	0.0043		0.3864		0.2695
Black or African American	0.0568		0.1190		0.1017
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.6033		0.4878		0.5682
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.5251		0.7692		0.7790
Chinese	0.5974		0.4704		0.6823
Filipino	0.3964		0.8214		0.9040
Japanese	*		0.0358		0.0553
Asian Indian	0.0964		0.0180		0.0281
Korean	*		0.2622		0.1275
Vietnamese	0.8894		0.7477		0.5967
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0264		0.9740		0.6123
Mexican	0.0740		0.8667		0.4747
Puerto Rican	0.5538		0.6785		0.9351
Central or South American	0.0160		0.0648		0.2472
Cuban	0.9891		0.9020		0.9327
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.62C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	457	479	655	637	688	683
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	416	436	613	596	651	635
White	318	335	526	500	578	547
Black or African American	168	190	214	217	195	222
American Indian or Alaska Native	85	89	70	59	62	46
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	55	50	43	44	40	36
Chinese	126	151	110	142	93	117
Filipino	157	127	128	113	108	91
Japanese	98	*	72	87	63	85
Asian Indian	119	104	108	88	89	69
Korean	80	55	74	48	55	42
Vietnamese	55	58	53	52	42	45
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	176	201	240	230	233	223
Mexican	421	378	358	328	279	247
Puerto Rican	152	153	131	139	100	103
Central or South American	165	183	155	147	123	119
Cuban	135	93	97	81	80	73
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.62D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.19	0.20	0.28	0.26	0.29	0.28
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.20	0.21	0.30	0.28	0.31	0.30
White	0.19	0.20	0.32	0.30	0.35	0.33
Black or African American	0.62	0.67	0.79	0.77	0.72	0.79
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.93	2.12	3.05	3.85	3.53	3.17
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	3.85	4.83	4.37	4.97	4.26	4.30
Chinese	2.76	3.64	3.49	3.85	3.28	3.70
Filipino	3.13	3.87	3.96	4.07	3.60	3.50
Japanese	4.07	*	5.23	5.64	5.35	5.82
Asian Indian	3.15	2.79	3.31	2.79	3.02	2.35
Korean	4.82	3.81	5.08	4.21	5.04	4.16
Vietnamese	5.44	4.91	5.17	5.02	4.39	4.55
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.60	0.64	0.82	0.73	0.79	0.71
Mexican	0.71	0.78	0.96	0.91	0.92	0.84
Puerto Rican	1.79	1.84	2.42	2.28	2.31	2.34
Central or South American	1.74	1.80	2.17	2.07	2.06	2.10
Cuban	2.22	2.33	2.94	3.30	3.36	3.00
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.62P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.1016		0.5331		0.1790
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.2536		0.3316		0.0668
White	0.8343		0.0624		0.0150
Black or African American	0.0728		0.6379		0.9522
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.6711		0.1985		0.3974
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.3356		0.6143		0.4708
Chinese	0.6100		0.7136		0.8229
Filipino	0.4254		0.8822		0.8042
Japanese	*		0.4734		0.3373
Asian Indian	0.4854		0.0620		0.0178
Korean	0.5800		0.9972		1.0000
Vietnamese	0.5493		0.8630		0.4767
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.3388		0.6570		0.5031
Mexican	0.2774		0.3926		0.3150
Puerto Rican	0.7207		0.9668		0.8200
Central or South American	0.6282		0.6897		0.3425
Cuban	0.7257		0.0916		0.2664
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.63C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	80	78	76	73	60	57
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	72	68	69	64	54	51
White	97	92	84	82	58	54
Black or African American	44	45	33	36	22	21
American Indian or Alaska Native	10	8	9	6	6	3
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	6	*	6	5	3	3
Chinese	8	10	8	9	5	5
Filipino	7	6	6	6	5	4
Japanese	*	*	*	*	2	*
Asian Indian	8	10	7	10	5	5
Korean	*	7	*	5	3	3
Vietnamese	9	*	*	*	3	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	36	37	33	35	25	29
Mexican	53	47	41	41	23	28
Puerto Rican	20	16	16	14	8	9
Central or South American	16	15	14	14	10	10
Cuban	9	8	8	8	6	6
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.63D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.32	0.31	0.30	0.29	0.24	0.23
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.35	0.32	0.33	0.31	0.26	0.24
White	0.40	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.30	0.29
Black or African American	0.80	0.78	0.69	0.68	0.53	0.48
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.85	3.42	3.17	2.78	2.73	1.92
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	5.80	*	5.85	5.74	4.09	3.76
Chinese	3.72	4.07	3.35	3.78	2.07	2.63
Filipino	3.08	3.78	3.08	3.33	2.90	2.11
Japanese	*	*	*	*	3.19	*
Asian Indian	3.30	3.34	3.15	3.33	2.22	1.87
Korean	*	5.21	*	4.33	3.27	2.76
Vietnamese	5.48	*	*	*	2.69	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.91	0.87	0.83	0.82	0.64	0.67
Mexican	1.16	1.10	1.02	1.03	0.73	0.84
Puerto Rican	2.26	2.29	2.25	2.18	1.69	1.71
Central or South American	2.52	2.61	2.38	2.60	2.13	2.11
Cuban	4.45	4.44	4.57	4.46	4.38	3.71
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.63P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003**
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0001		0.0540		0.0715
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0004		0.0588		0.0131
White	0.0014		0.0764		0.0098
Black or African American	0.2446		0.8541		0.8143
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.2460		0.1596		0.1986
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		0.5152		0.5737
Chinese	0.0761		0.1098		0.3924
Filipino	0.0012		0.0865		0.0550
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.7096		0.6872		0.6628
Korean	*		*		0.8704
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0450		0.5848		0.3191
Mexican	0.1305		0.7223		0.3164
Puerto Rican	0.1376		0.3190		0.7186
Central or South American	0.5678		0.6834		0.7197
Cuban	0.2599		0.6688		0.7774
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.64C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	77	82	99	99	124	117
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	68	67	84	82	109	100
White	233	213	223	204	204	184
Black or African American	100	87	91	78	65	63
American Indian or Alaska Native	20	14	16	13	14	9
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	15	14	14	12	12	10
Chinese	30	28	23	26	19	18
Filipino	18	20	16	18	14	15
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	18	20	17	19	15	16
Korean	22	18	22	17	20	14
Vietnamese	21	*	19	*	*	10
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	35	43	45	50	47	52
Mexican	106	92	87	81	71	66
Puerto Rican	29	25	27	23	25	20
Central or South American	34	38	29	33	26	27
Cuban	14	14	14	13	12	12
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.64D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.25	0.25	0.31	0.31	0.40	0.36
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.26	0.25	0.32	0.31	0.42	0.37
White	0.27	0.25	0.33	0.31	0.45	0.41
Black or African American	0.68	0.69	0.80	0.79	0.85	0.92
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.10	3.44	3.66	3.31	3.51	3.13
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.20	3.23	4.73	4.39	4.87	4.85
Chinese	3.28	3.27	3.12	4.17	4.11	4.05
Filipino	2.59	3.47	4.34	3.97	3.80	4.23
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	3.80	3.58	3.90	3.50	3.89	3.62
Korean	4.36	3.60	4.55	4.55	5.61	5.20
Vietnamese	4.20	*	5.40	*	*	5.43
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.63	0.74	0.81	0.87	0.84	0.90
Mexican	0.78	0.94	0.99	1.06	1.02	1.10
Puerto Rican	1.60	2.19	1.94	2.44	2.50	2.68
Central or South American	1.85	1.84	2.10	2.38	2.28	2.40
Cuban	2.06	2.93	2.57	3.30	3.49	4.76
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.64P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003**
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0101		0.9911		0.6806
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0859		0.3883		0.8880
White	0.4794		0.3455		0.5223
Black or African American	0.1379		0.7621		0.7233
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.2366		0.9061		0.2104
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.4192		0.5934		0.4928
Chinese	0.8261		0.3567		0.6150
Filipino	0.9728		0.1925		0.7385
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.7542		0.8761		1.0000
Korean	0.5030		0.8623		0.3923
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0226		0.1231		0.1778
Mexican	0.0490		0.3538		0.5009
Puerto Rican	0.0364		0.0267		0.0986
Central or South American	0.9867		0.3773		0.1029
Cuban	0.7116		0.9055		0.5149
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.65C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	434	455	636	619	661	661
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	393	420	598	588	627	620
White	1,315	1,157	1,148	1,003	1,010	895
Black or African American	442	440	363	338	292	289
American Indian or Alaska Native	72	83	60	53	57	43
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	34
Chinese	122	143	107	136	90	115
Filipino	154	120	124	108	110	88
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	117	97	106	82	88	64
Korean	*	*	*	*	*	*
Vietnamese	*	*	*	*	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	175	187	234	218	228	213
Mexican	355	341	307	303	249	232
Puerto Rican	139	143	120	131	93	99
Central or South American	148	172	139	137	111	111
Cuban	127	86	92	76	78	69
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.65D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.24	0.25	0.35	0.34	0.37	0.36
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.25	0.26	0.37	0.36	0.39	0.38
White	0.23	0.24	0.40	0.37	0.43	0.41
Black or African American	0.83	0.89	1.07	1.05	0.96	1.06
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.57	2.99	3.80	5.24	4.64	4.40
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	5.89
Chinese	3.33	4.64	4.38	4.82	4.12	4.70
Filipino	3.89	4.72	4.85	5.09	4.66	4.42
Japanese	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian Indian	3.91	3.66	4.11	3.61	3.83	3.02
Korean	*	*	*	*	*	*
Vietnamese	*	*	*	*	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.88	0.87	1.17	1.01	1.15	0.99
Mexican	1.12	1.10	1.44	1.33	1.35	1.24
Puerto Rican	2.53	2.49	3.38	3.21	3.34	3.30
Central or South American	2.38	2.29	2.94	2.69	2.81	2.71
Cuban	2.76	2.80	3.80	4.19	4.20	3.69
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.65P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.5251		0.4270		0.1194
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.6328		0.3473		0.0508
White	0.4829		0.0720		0.0135
Black or African American	0.1541		0.5952		0.9665
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4345		0.2158		0.5402
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		*
Chinese	0.3289		0.9554		0.9164
Filipino	0.6725		0.8346		0.6853
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.5386		0.0606		0.0151
Korean	*		*		*
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.9640		0.9770		0.6560
Mexican	0.8534		0.5929		0.3416
Puerto Rican	0.8278		0.5452		0.5339
Central or South American	0.5665		0.7938		0.4792
Cuban	0.4567		0.0676		0.1754
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.66C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	442	464	651	632	679	678
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	404	427	612	596	643	636
White	1,367	1,188	1,190	1,034	1,042	929
Black or African American	489	469	406	365	320	310
American Indian or Alaska Native	80	87	66	57	61	45
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	54	*	42	44	40	35
Chinese	128	149	111	141	94	117
Filipino	154	126	126	113	108	91
Japanese	*	*	72	*	63	*
Asian Indian	118	102	108	87	90	68
Korean	*	54	*	47	54	42
Vietnamese	*	57	*	52	42	45
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	174	191	238	225	231	219
Mexican	404	366	343	321	272	244
Puerto Rican	146	150	127	137	99	102
Central or South American	162	180	151	145	122	117
Cuban	132	90	95	80	79	72
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.66D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.21	0.21	0.31	0.29	0.32	0.31
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.22	0.23	0.33	0.32	0.35	0.34
White	0.20	0.21	0.35	0.33	0.38	0.36
Black or African American	0.70	0.75	0.91	0.89	0.81	0.91
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.07	2.38	3.36	4.53	3.95	3.75
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.45	*	5.01	5.49	4.84	4.83
Chinese	2.95	4.00	3.82	4.16	3.62	4.02
Filipino	3.31	4.15	4.30	4.45	3.90	3.81
Japanese	*	*	5.62	*	5.73	*
Asian Indian	3.39	3.16	3.58	3.13	3.28	2.65
Korean	*	4.26	*	4.85	5.62	4.82
Vietnamese	*	5.32	*	5.48	5.31	5.05
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.68	0.70	0.93	0.83	0.91	0.80
Mexican	0.85	0.86	1.12	1.05	1.05	0.96
Puerto Rican	2.07	2.06	2.78	2.66	2.74	2.77
Central or South American	1.91	1.92	2.39	2.25	2.33	2.29
Cuban	2.45	2.53	3.38	3.71	3.79	3.33
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.66P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.2773		0.4259		0.1464
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.4492		0.2761		0.0512
White	0.5738		0.0502		0.0107
Black or African American	0.1026		0.6515		0.9721
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.5731		0.2414		0.4454
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		0.5751		0.4587
Chinese	0.3601		0.9366		0.9746
Filipino	0.6709		0.7079		0.6542
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.5116		0.0661		0.0180
Korean	*		*		0.8276
Vietnamese	*		*		0.5597
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.5827		0.7295		0.4408
Mexican	0.4865		0.4404		0.2574
Puerto Rican	0.8861		0.8744		0.8150
Central or South American	0.5779		0.6585		0.3169
Cuban	0.4978		0.0829		0.2277
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.67C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	688	683	512	495	286	269
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	651	635	493	459	265	252
White	578	547	430	408	239	238
Black or African American	195	222	161	168	89	78
American Indian or Alaska Native	62	46	35	41	20	29
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	40	36	22	30	9	8
Chinese	93	117	35	42	9	21
Filipino	108	91	40	47	14	15
Japanese	63	85	19	28	4	5
Asian Indian	89	69	43	38	15	12
Korean	55	42	32	28	24	11
Vietnamese	42	45	19	21	11	12
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	233	223	184	179	94	90
Mexican	279	247	198	169	77	76
Puerto Rican	100	103	73	73	37	34
Central or South American	123	119	81	69	24	31
Cuban	80	73	52	43	35	15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.67D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.29	0.28	0.22	0.20	0.12	0.11
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.31	0.30	0.24	0.22	0.13	0.12
White	0.35	0.33	0.26	0.24	0.14	0.14
Black or African American	0.72	0.79	0.59	0.59	0.33	0.28
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.53	3.17	2.30	2.84	1.44	2.11
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.26	4.30	3.01	3.80	1.53	1.20
Chinese	3.28	3.70	1.74	1.68	0.43	0.83
Filipino	3.60	3.50	1.89	2.34	0.67	0.84
Japanese	5.35	5.82	2.63	3.08	0.57	0.57
Asian Indian	3.02	2.35	1.82	1.50	0.72	0.47
Korean	5.04	4.16	3.47	3.18	2.74	1.44
Vietnamese	4.39	4.55	2.29	2.58	1.38	1.42
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.79	0.71	0.63	0.57	0.32	0.28
Mexican	0.92	0.84	0.79	0.70	0.38	0.36
Puerto Rican	2.31	2.34	1.90	1.89	1.14	1.02
Central or South American	2.06	2.10	1.59	1.46	0.58	0.70
Cuban	3.36	3.00	3.31	2.73	2.80	1.07
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.67P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.1790		0.8760		0.9816
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0668		0.9195		0.8856
White	0.0150		0.7337		0.5814
Black or African American	0.9522		0.4439		0.7735
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.3974		0.8652		0.9062
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.4708		0.9050		0.0372
Chinese	0.8229		0.3722		0.0996
Filipino	0.8042		0.4689		0.9880
Japanese	0.3373		0.8990		0.4385
Asian Indian	0.0178		0.7986		0.5146
Korean	1.0000		0.4117		0.4904
Vietnamese	0.4767		0.2867		0.9934
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.5031		0.4382		0.7574
Mexican	0.3150		0.4936		0.8385
Puerto Rican	0.8200		0.9831		0.5481
Central or South American	0.3425		0.3233		0.4928
Cuban	0.2664		0.8230		0.6728
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.68C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	60	57	49	49	23	24
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	54	51	44	42	21	21
White	58	54	46	41	21	21
Black or African American	22	21	15	14	4	5
American Indian or Alaska Native	6	3	5	3	2	2
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	3	3	2	2	*	0
Chinese	5	5	3	4	*	*
Filipino	5	4	3	2	*	0
Japanese	2	*	0	*	0	*
Asian Indian	5	5	3	4	*	*
Korean	3	3	2	2	*	*
Vietnamese	3	*	*	*	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	25	29	19	26	8	12
Mexican	23	28	16	24	8	10
Puerto Rican	8	9	6	7	1	3
Central or South American	10	10	8	9	3	4
Cuban	6	6	*	4	1	2
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.68D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.24	0.23	0.20	0.19	0.09	0.10
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.26	0.24	0.21	0.20	0.10	0.10
White	0.30	0.29	0.26	0.24	0.13	0.13
Black or African American	0.53	0.48	0.38	0.35	0.11	0.14
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.73	1.92	2.69	1.72	0.84	1.15
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.09	3.76	3.12	2.84	*	0.36
Chinese	2.07	2.63	1.19	2.16	*	*
Filipino	2.90	2.11	1.88	1.26	*	0.16
Japanese	3.19	*	0.93	*	0.64	*
Asian Indian	2.22	1.87	1.34	1.61	*	*
Korean	3.27	2.76	2.46	1.60	*	*
Vietnamese	2.69	*	*	*	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.64	0.67	0.48	0.61	0.20	0.28
Mexican	0.73	0.84	0.55	0.76	0.29	0.32
Puerto Rican	1.69	1.71	1.19	1.34	0.27	0.68
Central or South American	2.13	2.11	1.66	2.00	0.63	0.97
Cuban	4.38	3.71	*	2.59	0.97	1.31
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.68P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0715		0.5699		0.7617
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0131		0.0889		0.3828
White	0.0098		0.0424		0.2937
Black or African American	0.8143		0.4664		0.5099
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.1986		0.3498		0.3408
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.5737		0.6360		*
Chinese	0.3924		0.1561		*
Filipino	0.0550		0.2988		*
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.6628		0.9308		*
Korean	0.8704		0.7182		*
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.3191		0.0468		0.2420
Mexican	0.3164		0.0718		0.9483
Puerto Rican	0.7186		0.9169		0.0799
Central or South American	0.7197		0.6578		0.4444
Cuban	0.7774		*		0.8140
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.69C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	124	117	119	119	84	85
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	109	100	105	107	75	77
White	204	184	158	151	87	88
Black or African American	65	63	40	43	16	18
American Indian or Alaska Native	14	9	11	8	4	5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	12	10	11	7	7	4
Chinese	19	18	11	13	4	7
Filipino	14	15	10	11	6	4
Japanese	*	*	*	*	3	1
Asian Indian	15	16	9	11	5	8
Korean	20	14	13	10	*	6
Vietnamese	*	10	8	7	4	3
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	47	52	48	50	29	29
Mexican	71	66	61	56	25	25
Puerto Rican	25	20	20	18	10	9
Central or South American	26	27	18	24	9	11
Cuban	12	12	10	9	4	6
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.69D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.40	0.36	0.38	0.37	0.27	0.26
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.42	0.37	0.41	0.40	0.29	0.29
White	0.45	0.41	0.44	0.45	0.34	0.35
Black or African American	0.85	0.92	0.74	0.77	0.39	0.39
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.51	3.13	3.39	3.00	1.86	2.31
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.87	4.85	4.83	4.55	3.89	2.93
Chinese	4.11	4.05	3.09	3.40	1.25	1.91
Filipino	3.80	4.23	3.42	3.99	2.46	1.56
Japanese	*	*	*	*	3.71	1.64
Asian Indian	3.89	3.62	2.90	2.69	1.59	2.22
Korean	5.61	5.20	5.15	4.61	*	3.17
Vietnamese	*	5.43	3.87	3.85	2.52	2.26
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.84	0.90	0.86	0.88	0.52	0.51
Mexican	1.02	1.10	1.02	1.07	0.59	0.61
Puerto Rican	2.50	2.68	2.63	2.68	1.58	1.65
Central or South American	2.28	2.40	2.10	2.40	1.20	1.40
Cuban	3.49	4.76	4.36	4.69	2.71	4.09
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.69P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.6806		0.5781		0.6334
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.8880		0.5826		0.4596
White	0.5223		0.3200		0.2864
Black or African American	0.7233		0.8049		0.7138
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.2104		0.4975		0.5967
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.4928		0.2297		0.9717
Chinese	0.6150		0.9568		0.2884
Filipino	0.7385		0.8102		0.5288
Japanese	*		*		0.0586
Asian Indian	1.0000		0.6190		0.8076
Korean	0.3923		0.9179		*
Vietnamese	*		0.7339		0.8195
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.1778		0.8819		0.5485
Mexican	0.5009		0.9199		0.1948
Puerto Rican	0.0986		0.8520		0.9446
Central or South American	0.1029		0.9886		0.7804
Cuban	0.5149		0.0660		0.1029
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.70C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	661	661	478	461	257	249
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	627	620	459	427	235	233
White	1,010	895	468	438	225	226
Black or African American	292	289	193	181	89	79
American Indian or Alaska Native	57	43	31	38	19	28
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	34	18	28	6	7
Chinese	90	115	31	38	*	19
Filipino	110	88	39	44	13	15
Japanese	*	*	18	28	3	4
Asian Indian	88	64	43	36	14	8
Korean	*	*	*	25	*	9
Vietnamese	*	*	*	19	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	228	213	177	170	90	85
Mexican	249	232	173	158	74	72
Puerto Rican	93	99	68	69	36	31
Central or South American	111	111	75	59	22	29
Cuban	78	69	53	41	*	15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.70D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.37	0.36	0.27	0.25	0.14	0.13
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.39	0.38	0.29	0.26	0.15	0.14
White	0.43	0.41	0.31	0.29	0.16	0.17
Black or African American	0.96	1.06	0.80	0.81	0.45	0.38
American Indian or Alaska Native	4.64	4.40	2.91	3.89	1.91	2.91
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	5.89	4.27	5.28	1.88	1.42
Chinese	4.12	4.70	2.05	1.95	*	1.01
Filipino	4.66	4.42	2.33	2.86	0.78	1.03
Japanese	*	*	2.83	3.41	0.48	0.61
Asian Indian	3.83	3.02	2.45	1.88	0.89	0.42
Korean	*	*	*	4.75	*	1.88
Vietnamese	*	*	*	3.40	*	*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	1.15	0.99	0.89	0.79	0.45	0.39
Mexican	1.35	1.24	1.13	1.03	0.57	0.52
Puerto Rican	3.34	3.30	2.70	2.64	1.63	1.35
Central or South American	2.81	2.71	2.15	1.75	0.76	0.89
Cuban	4.20	3.69	4.33	3.37	*	1.31
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.70P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.1194		0.7286		0.8186
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0508		0.9771		0.8860
White	0.0135		0.8979		0.8460
Black or African American	0.9665		0.3560		0.6814
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.5402		0.7059		0.9523
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		0.4666		0.0399
Chinese	0.9164		0.4451		*
Filipino	0.6853		0.3921		0.7097
Japanese	*		0.8514		0.9844
Asian Indian	0.0151		0.6931		0.4433
Korean	*		*		*
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.6560		0.3279		0.8574
Mexican	0.3416		0.3661		0.8110
Puerto Rican	0.5339		0.8680		0.4987
Central or South American	0.4792		0.2748		0.5761
Cuban	0.1754		0.8179		*
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.71C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	679	678	507	495	285	269
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	643	636	489	461	262	253
White	1,042	929	503	479	249	246
Black or African American	320	310	204	192	91	81
American Indian or Alaska Native	61	45	35	40	20	29
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	40	35	22	30	9	8
Chinese	94	117	35	41	9	21
Filipino	108	91	40	47	15	15
Japanese	63	*	19	28	4	5
Asian Indian	90	68	43	38	15	12
Korean	54	42	32	28	24	11
Vietnamese	42	45	18	21	11	12
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	231	219	182	176	94	89
Mexican	272	244	195	169	77	75
Puerto Rican	99	102	73	73	37	34
Central or South American	122	117	81	67	24	31
Cuban	79	72	51	43	*	15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.71D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.32	0.31	0.24	0.23	0.13	0.12
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.35	0.34	0.26	0.24	0.14	0.13
White	0.38	0.36	0.28	0.27	0.16	0.16
Black or African American	0.81	0.91	0.67	0.69	0.38	0.32
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.95	3.75	2.56	3.33	1.64	2.42
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.84	4.83	3.55	4.31	1.72	1.36
Chinese	3.62	4.02	1.94	1.80	0.49	0.90
Filipino	3.90	3.81	2.01	2.56	0.74	0.93
Japanese	5.73	*	2.82	3.18	0.60	0.59
Asian Indian	3.28	2.65	2.03	1.67	0.80	0.52
Korean	5.62	4.82	3.86	3.76	3.08	1.70
Vietnamese	5.31	5.05	2.70	2.89	1.61	1.60
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.91	0.80	0.71	0.65	0.37	0.33
Mexican	1.05	0.96	0.91	0.81	0.44	0.42
Puerto Rican	2.74	2.77	2.25	2.23	1.33	1.19
Central or South American	2.33	2.29	1.78	1.58	0.65	0.77
Cuban	3.79	3.33	3.69	3.05	*	1.19
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.71P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.1464		0.8950		0.9868
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0512		0.8369		0.8531
White	0.0107		0.6382		0.5419
Black or African American	0.9721		0.4044		0.7428
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4454		0.8051		0.9691
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.4587		0.9200		0.0537
Chinese	0.9746		0.4686		0.1262
Filipino	0.6542		0.3951		0.9035
Japanese	*		0.9970		0.4487
Asian Indian	0.0180		0.7953		0.5635
Korean	0.8276		0.3240		0.5320
Vietnamese	0.5597		0.3416		0.9759
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.4408		0.3136		0.6673
Mexican	0.2574		0.3649		0.8421
Puerto Rican	0.8150		0.9912		0.4618
Central or South American	0.3169		0.2749		0.5709
Cuban	0.2277		0.9215		*
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.72C Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	812	793	818	885	794	845
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	359	378	348	395	334	381
New England	169	148	169	168	156	161
Middle Atlantic	317	347	302	357	294	347
Midwest	274	276	325	356	310	342
East North Central	225	231	258	280	253	272
West North Central	156	152	197	210	178	202
South	504	493	539	547	510	539
South Atlantic	399	397	450	404	428	406
East South Central	182	138	189	227	170	220
West South Central	244	238	227	278	219	254
West	451	453	382	415	393	374
Mountain	167	196	149	192	152	183
Pacific	423	403	349	368	360	327
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,539	1,409	810	829	721	752
Small Metro	1,236	1,016	687	601	651	551
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	978	848	543	482	505	439
< 250K Pop.	788	609	429	359	417	328
Nonmetro	773	816	458	481	422	432
Urbanized	516	516	320	320	284	298
Less Urbanized	617	633	352	373	332	333
Completely Rural	329	381	150	181	139	150
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.72D Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.34	0.33	0.34	0.36	0.33	0.35
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.79	0.83	0.76	0.87	0.73	0.84
New England	1.42	1.24	1.41	1.41	1.31	1.34
Middle Atlantic	0.94	1.03	0.90	1.06	0.88	1.03
Midwest	0.51	0.51	0.60	0.65	0.57	0.63
East North Central	0.59	0.61	0.68	0.74	0.67	0.71
West North Central	0.96	0.93	1.21	1.28	1.10	1.23
South	0.59	0.56	0.63	0.62	0.59	0.62
South Atlantic	0.88	0.86	1.00	0.88	0.95	0.88
East South Central	1.26	0.95	1.31	1.56	1.18	1.52
West South Central	0.92	0.88	0.86	1.03	0.83	0.94
West	0.83	0.82	0.70	0.75	0.72	0.67
Mountain	1.04	1.19	0.93	1.17	0.95	1.11
Pacific	1.09	1.03	0.90	0.94	0.93	0.84
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.51	0.49	0.47	0.54	0.45	0.50
Small Metro	0.54	0.55	0.61	0.62	0.61	0.59
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.63	0.66	0.78	0.75	0.76	0.72
< 250K Pop.	1.08	0.97	0.98	1.05	1.01	1.00
Nonmetro	0.68	0.73	0.87	0.75	0.83	0.74
Urbanized	1.11	1.11	1.37	1.21	1.26	1.19
Less Urbanized	1.01	0.99	1.17	1.04	1.16	1.04
Completely Rural	2.18	2.44	2.23	2.41	2.05	2.10
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.72P Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.1770		0.4291		0.6856
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.3786		0.5626		0.6059
New England	0.9299		0.4741		0.7056
Middle Atlantic	0.3078		0.7750		0.6978
Midwest	0.2921		0.2675		0.4340
East North Central	0.0876		0.5608		0.6111
West North Central	0.5179		0.2777		0.5224
South	0.1593		0.4671		0.2908
South Atlantic	0.0256		0.0335		0.0535
East South Central	0.0291		0.0773		0.2191
West South Central	0.4937		0.5490		0.9524
West	0.3696		0.2279		0.2411
Mountain	0.7722		0.9424		0.9728
Pacific	0.3799		0.1760		0.1934
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.8646		0.6064		0.6135
Small Metro	0.0712		0.6969		0.5998
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.8089		0.6933		0.6765
< 250K Pop.	0.0020		0.2168		0.1396
Nonmetro	0.4232		0.0989		0.3616
Urbanized	0.4634		0.5881		0.5698
Less Urbanized	0.8399		0.0654		0.2943
Completely Rural	0.4986		0.4825		0.9079
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.73C Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	106	113	96	99	80	78
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	41	42	41	35	36	30
New England	20	19	19	18	18	13
Middle Atlantic	36	37	36	30	32	26
Midwest	41	42	37	38	31	30
East North Central	33	34	29	31	22	25
West North Central	24	24	23	21	21	17
South	66	68	59	59	49	48
South Atlantic	49	52	44	46	38	38
East South Central	24	24	20	22	18	17
West South Central	36	33	33	29	26	25
West	60	62	51	56	41	42
Mountain	25	26	26	26	21	21
Pacific	54	57	45	49	35	37
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	102	104	84	82	63	61
Small Metro	84	74	65	56	52	43
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	68	61	53	46	43	35
< 250K Pop.	51	45	37	34	30	25
Nonmetro	72	67	57	57	45	41
Urbanized	37	36	30	30	22	22
Less Urbanized	62	52	47	42	37	32
Completely Rural	22	31	15	27	12	16
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.73D Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.42	0.44	0.38	0.39	0.32	0.31
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.91	0.93	0.90	0.78	0.80	0.65
New England	1.69	1.65	1.59	1.53	1.50	1.14
Middle Atlantic	1.08	1.11	1.08	0.90	0.94	0.78
Midwest	0.73	0.75	0.66	0.67	0.54	0.53
East North Central	0.83	0.84	0.73	0.77	0.56	0.61
West North Central	1.46	1.44	1.38	1.29	1.27	1.04
South	0.73	0.75	0.65	0.65	0.55	0.53
South Atlantic	1.06	1.12	0.96	1.00	0.82	0.83
East South Central	1.67	1.64	1.36	1.51	1.25	1.15
West South Central	1.22	1.12	1.12	0.98	0.86	0.83
West	0.99	1.02	0.86	0.92	0.68	0.69
Mountain	1.46	1.48	1.46	1.45	1.19	1.17
Pacific	1.27	1.31	1.05	1.13	0.83	0.85
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.60	0.61	0.52	0.52	0.42	0.41
Small Metro	0.74	0.72	0.66	0.61	0.57	0.53
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.87	0.89	0.79	0.73	0.67	0.63
< 250K Pop.	1.31	1.20	1.12	1.12	0.95	0.95
Nonmetro	1.14	1.04	1.03	1.03	0.88	0.79
Urbanized	1.43	1.37	1.35	1.38	1.13	1.13
Less Urbanized	1.68	1.41	1.50	1.33	1.30	1.15
Completely Rural	4.04	3.59	3.03	3.88	2.49	2.33
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.73P Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0014		0.1000		0.0031
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.3748		0.1553		0.4079
New England	0.2832		0.1604		0.3751
Middle Atlantic	0.6645		0.3930		0.6433
Midwest	0.0186		0.3230		0.1735
East North Central	0.0341		0.1791		0.1224
West North Central	0.2611		0.8679		0.8076
South	0.3147		0.5579		0.1534
South Atlantic	0.3194		0.8253		0.5456
East South Central	0.8297		0.5351		0.0613
West South Central	0.7361		0.7180		0.5822
West	0.0155		0.5323		0.0231
Mountain	0.4966		0.0923		0.8802
Pacific	0.0030		0.1046		0.0116
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0721		0.7940		0.5049
Small Metro	0.0016		0.0026		0.0005
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0041		0.0065		0.0091
< 250K Pop.	0.1638		0.1723		0.0139
Nonmetro	0.6502		0.8218		0.2016
Urbanized	0.8227		0.8363		0.3181
Less Urbanized	0.2569		0.6843		0.1413
Completely Rural	0.2844		0.0987		0.2813
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.74C Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	143	148	162	155	161	155
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	54	58	69	63	67	64
New England	28	27	31	29	26	26
Middle Atlantic	46	51	61	55	62	58
Midwest	52	54	67	58	70	59
East North Central	43	44	56	47	61	48
West North Central	30	30	37	34	36	36
South	92	91	100	98	98	100
South Atlantic	57	69	69	71	71	70
East South Central	33	30	41	38	37	40
West South Central	63	48	59	53	58	59
West	78	84	81	87	77	84
Mountain	30	38	35	42	30	37
Pacific	71	75	72	75	70	75
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	242	256	199	208	173	186
Small Metro	242	201	193	166	170	141
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	199	164	157	136	135	114
< 250K Pop.	151	124	124	102	109	87
Nonmetro	130	125	112	104	98	94
Urbanized	106	87	88	71	75	64
Less Urbanized	97	89	79	74	72	68
Completely Rural	39	42	35	38	30	30
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.74D Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.44	0.46	0.50	0.48	0.50	0.48
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.95	1.01	1.21	1.10	1.19	1.12
New England	1.86	1.80	2.05	1.93	1.74	1.73
Middle Atlantic	1.09	1.20	1.46	1.30	1.48	1.38
Midwest	0.70	0.72	0.90	0.78	0.95	0.80
East North Central	0.83	0.85	1.09	0.92	1.18	0.94
West North Central	1.28	1.29	1.59	1.46	1.54	1.53
South	0.79	0.78	0.86	0.83	0.85	0.85
South Atlantic	1.00	1.19	1.21	1.23	1.24	1.20
East South Central	1.70	1.55	2.08	1.95	1.90	2.04
West South Central	1.62	1.23	1.53	1.35	1.49	1.51
West	1.03	1.11	1.07	1.14	1.03	1.10
Mountain	1.31	1.61	1.53	1.79	1.31	1.59
Pacific	1.36	1.43	1.37	1.43	1.34	1.42
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.65	0.67	0.71	0.68	0.68	0.69
Small Metro	0.71	0.76	0.85	0.82	0.89	0.82
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.88	1.01	1.10	1.05	1.13	1.01
< 250K Pop.	1.39	1.05	1.47	1.34	1.42	1.48
Nonmetro	0.83	0.87	1.09	1.03	1.15	1.07
Urbanized	1.36	1.36	1.59	1.62	1.70	1.75
Less Urbanized	1.09	1.17	1.47	1.43	1.52	1.46
Completely Rural	2.44	2.37	4.28	3.13	4.43	3.24
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.74P Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0695		0.9894		0.6334
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.0806		0.1245		0.2306
New England	0.3146		0.4394		0.2127
Middle Atlantic	0.1479		0.1793		0.4404
Midwest	0.0095		0.2115		0.0448
East North Central	0.0817		0.3375		0.0939
West North Central	0.0362		0.4145		0.2691
South	0.7310		0.3832		0.4382
South Atlantic	0.1780		0.7670		0.6543
East South Central	0.5422		0.8922		0.6600
West South Central	0.5304		0.0700		0.1158
West	0.9504		0.2577		0.4502
Mountain	0.8132		0.8010		0.6512
Pacific	0.8699		0.1585		0.3014
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.1661		0.5605		0.7990
Small Metro	0.3469		0.7357		0.7965
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.5746		0.9033		0.8316
< 250K Pop.	0.4512		0.7230		0.4926
Nonmetro	0.5751		0.5818		0.2119
Urbanized	0.8256		0.1405		0.0758
Less Urbanized	0.7073		0.4187		0.6547
Completely Rural	0.1874		0.4875		0.1631
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.75C Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	768	747	768	829	752	798
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	338	361	322	375	315	363
New England	163	143	145	154	142	151
Middle Atlantic	296	330	286	341	280	330
Midwest	265	263	302	342	292	332
East North Central	215	224	242	272	241	264
West North Central	155	140	181	198	164	194
South	467	474	518	519	493	509
South Atlantic	368	380	439	387	421	388
East South Central	166	125	173	214	159	207
West South Central	232	227	214	261	199	239
West	434	419	350	384	366	355
Mountain	161	179	131	181	144	172
Pacific	405	371	323	339	335	311
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,428	1,357	739	774	668	711
Small Metro	1,114	943	579	542	565	507
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	878	788	454	442	436	412
< 250K Pop.	691	555	350	311	351	295
Nonmetro	727	744	405	425	380	389
Urbanized	470	474	272	285	248	268
Less Urbanized	550	562	294	327	285	298
Completely Rural	294	349	126	152	119	133
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.75D Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.42	0.40	0.42	0.45	0.41	0.43
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.96	1.02	0.91	1.06	0.89	1.03
New England	1.75	1.54	1.56	1.65	1.53	1.63
Middle Atlantic	1.14	1.26	1.10	1.31	1.08	1.27
Midwest	0.65	0.63	0.74	0.83	0.71	0.80
East North Central	0.75	0.77	0.84	0.94	0.84	0.91
West North Central	1.27	1.13	1.47	1.59	1.33	1.56
South	0.71	0.71	0.79	0.78	0.75	0.76
South Atlantic	1.05	1.07	1.26	1.09	1.21	1.09
East South Central	1.51	1.12	1.57	1.92	1.45	1.86
West South Central	1.18	1.13	1.09	1.30	1.01	1.19
West	1.05	1.00	0.85	0.92	0.89	0.85
Mountain	1.35	1.45	1.10	1.47	1.20	1.40
Pacific	1.39	1.26	1.11	1.15	1.15	1.06
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.63	0.60	0.59	0.67	0.57	0.63
Small Metro	0.66	0.69	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.75
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.80	0.82	0.95	0.95	0.96	0.91
< 250K Pop.	1.20	1.24	1.25	1.29	1.28	1.27
Nonmetro	0.86	0.91	1.06	0.93	1.01	0.91
Urbanized	1.36	1.36	1.66	1.54	1.55	1.49
Less Urbanized	1.29	1.23	1.42	1.28	1.43	1.29
Completely Rural	2.57	3.09	2.56	2.79	2.41	2.55
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.75P Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.4971		0.2959		0.4141
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.1906		0.2908		0.3946
New England	0.8222		0.2594		0.4725
Middle Atlantic	0.1764		0.5245		0.5485
Midwest	0.7907		0.1258		0.1727
East North Central	0.2574		0.3312		0.2984
West North Central	0.2306		0.1971		0.3629
South	0.1799		0.3847		0.2558
South Atlantic	0.0411		0.0328		0.0620
East South Central	0.0236		0.0518		0.1624
West South Central	0.3832		0.8045		0.7569
West	0.5334		0.2510		0.1792
Mountain	0.6684		0.7657		0.9489
Pacific	0.6041		0.1629		0.1485
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.7323		0.6740		0.6112
Small Metro	0.1526		0.9368		0.9095
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.4586		0.4040		0.4878
< 250K Pop.	0.0010		0.2907		0.2435
Nonmetro	0.5083		0.0715		0.1822
Urbanized	0.4939		0.3752		0.2768
Less Urbanized	0.9903		0.0668		0.2409
Completely Rural	0.4446		0.6470		0.9078
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.76C Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	795	768	816	878	793	839
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	347	365	345	389	332	377
New England	161	143	164	163	154	158
Middle Atlantic	307	335	302	353	294	343
Midwest	268	271	326	356	311	343
East North Central	219	229	255	282	252	273
West North Central	154	144	203	209	181	202
South	488	482	541	544	510	537
South Atlantic	385	385	450	401	428	401
East South Central	175	131	189	226	172	221
West South Central	240	233	233	277	218	255
West	450	432	378	410	392	372
Mountain	172	183	147	190	154	181
Pacific	419	385	345	363	358	326
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,515	1,395	790	820	708	749
Small Metro	1,198	994	660	587	633	544
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	950	828	525	469	493	432
< 250K Pop.	759	590	408	348	401	323
Nonmetro	748	787	443	463	410	420
Urbanized	502	499	313	307	279	290
Less Urbanized	586	602	330	355	315	322
Completely Rural	314	368	145	170	135	143
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.76D Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.37	0.35	0.38	0.40	0.37	0.39
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.85	0.89	0.84	0.95	0.81	0.92
New England	1.49	1.33	1.52	1.51	1.43	1.46
Middle Atlantic	1.02	1.10	1.00	1.16	0.97	1.13
Midwest	0.55	0.55	0.67	0.73	0.64	0.70
East North Central	0.65	0.67	0.75	0.83	0.74	0.80
West North Central	1.05	0.98	1.39	1.41	1.24	1.37
South	0.63	0.61	0.70	0.69	0.66	0.68
South Atlantic	0.95	0.93	1.11	0.97	1.05	0.97
East South Central	1.35	1.00	1.46	1.73	1.33	1.69
West South Central	1.02	0.97	0.99	1.15	0.92	1.06
West	0.93	0.88	0.78	0.83	0.81	0.75
Mountain	1.21	1.24	1.03	1.29	1.08	1.23
Pacific	1.22	1.11	1.00	1.05	1.04	0.94
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.55	0.53	0.52	0.60	0.50	0.56
Small Metro	0.57	0.59	0.68	0.68	0.68	0.66
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.69	0.71	0.87	0.83	0.86	0.79
< 250K Pop.	1.09	1.06	1.11	1.17	1.12	1.12
Nonmetro	0.75	0.79	0.98	0.83	0.93	0.82
Urbanized	1.20	1.20	1.53	1.34	1.40	1.32
Less Urbanized	1.13	1.07	1.31	1.14	1.30	1.14
Completely Rural	2.31	2.76	2.51	2.69	2.33	2.35
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.76P Tobacco Product Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.3206		0.3338		0.5022
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.3116		0.4637		0.5513
New England	0.9637		0.3707		0.6366
Middle Atlantic	0.2705		0.7083		0.6659
Midwest	0.4420		0.2309		0.3756
East North Central	0.1494		0.4668		0.5225
West North Central	0.4392		0.3006		0.5247
South	0.1734		0.4953		0.3429
South Atlantic	0.0274		0.0341		0.0578
East South Central	0.0226		0.0678		0.1681
West South Central	0.4879		0.5349		0.9246
West	0.5560		0.1925		0.1555
Mountain	0.6497		0.7311		0.9704
Pacific	0.6381		0.1112		0.1140
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.9397		0.5802		0.5670
Small Metro	0.1177		0.9184		0.8092
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.5355		0.4987		0.5190
< 250K Pop.	0.0012		0.2580		0.1897
Nonmetro	0.4610		0.1053		0.2898
Urbanized	0.4878		0.5669		0.4998
Less Urbanized	0.9691		0.0573		0.2222
Completely Rural	0.3785		0.6610		0.8048
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Tobacco Products include cigarettes, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), cigars, or pipe tobacco. Tobacco Product use in the past year excludes past year pipe tobacco use, but includes past month pipe tobacco use. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.77C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	824	858	788	817	768	777
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	335	395	330	366	318	353
New England	187	172	154	155	158	149
Middle Atlantic	277	356	291	332	276	322
Midwest	282	294	302	328	294	320
East North Central	238	246	252	257	253	248
West North Central	152	167	167	200	150	195
South	523	540	524	496	505	477
South Atlantic	418	433	438	361	413	353
East South Central	196	156	181	222	182	208
West South Central	243	251	223	255	225	228
West	466	470	371	391	373	357
Mountain	186	212	157	176	149	171
Pacific	430	412	333	352	340	314
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,426	1,368	715	746	668	687
Small Metro	1,194	989	589	535	550	493
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	951	818	472	420	433	381
< 250K Pop.	767	591	363	331	350	306
Nonmetro	709	783	396	428	372	383
Urbanized	485	488	281	274	254	262
Less Urbanized	579	599	324	317	303	277
Completely Rural	308	374	127	160	116	129
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.77D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.34	0.35	0.33	0.34	0.32	0.32
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.74	0.87	0.73	0.80	0.70	0.77
New England	1.57	1.44	1.29	1.30	1.32	1.25
Middle Atlantic	0.82	1.06	0.87	0.99	0.82	0.96
Midwest	0.52	0.54	0.56	0.60	0.54	0.59
East North Central	0.63	0.65	0.66	0.67	0.67	0.65
West North Central	0.93	1.02	1.03	1.22	0.92	1.19
South	0.61	0.62	0.61	0.57	0.59	0.54
South Atlantic	0.92	0.94	0.97	0.78	0.91	0.77
East South Central	1.36	1.07	1.26	1.52	1.26	1.43
West South Central	0.92	0.93	0.84	0.94	0.85	0.84
West	0.85	0.85	0.68	0.71	0.68	0.64
Mountain	1.16	1.29	0.98	1.07	0.93	1.04
Pacific	1.11	1.05	0.86	0.90	0.88	0.81
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.50	0.53	0.45	0.50	0.44	0.47
Small Metro	0.58	0.60	0.59	0.57	0.57	0.55
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.70	0.71	0.74	0.69	0.69	0.65
< 250K Pop.	1.15	1.04	1.01	1.03	1.00	0.98
Nonmetro	0.71	0.73	0.81	0.73	0.78	0.70
Urbanized	1.24	1.21	1.22	1.16	1.17	1.14
Less Urbanized	0.97	1.01	1.16	1.02	1.13	0.96
Completely Rural	2.35	2.61	2.00	2.19	1.82	1.86
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.77P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.1330		0.9044		0.9728
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.2235		0.9358		0.7777
New England	0.9057		0.5352		0.5557
Middle Atlantic	0.1418		0.8270		0.9893
Midwest	0.3347		0.4431		0.7093
East North Central	0.1168		0.7544		0.6968
West North Central	0.5280		0.3782		0.9224
South	0.0804		0.1994		0.1339
South Atlantic	0.0292		0.0283		0.0745
East South Central	0.0753		0.1567		0.4683
West South Central	0.2000		0.8184		0.4039
West	0.2955		0.2010		0.1647
Mountain	0.7530		0.6745		0.8976
Pacific	0.3012		0.1078		0.1108
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.7383		0.9334		0.8483
Small Metro	0.0314		0.8935		0.6802
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.9080		0.8263		0.8662
< 250K Pop.	0.0012		0.6247		0.3866
Nonmetro	0.7609		0.4510		0.8439
Urbanized	0.6513		0.6003		0.9514
Less Urbanized	0.9406		0.2081		0.6100
Completely Rural	0.7965		0.2344		0.8504
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.78C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	105	108	89	90	76	71
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	39	41	37	32	32	28
New England	20	18	19	16	17	11
Middle Atlantic	34	37	32	28	27	26
Midwest	42	40	36	34	29	28
East North Central	33	32	29	28	22	23
West North Central	25	23	23	19	20	17
South	64	65	56	56	49	43
South Atlantic	49	51	43	43	39	33
East South Central	21	22	17	19	16	15
West South Central	35	32	31	28	24	22
West	61	59	46	49	39	39
Mountain	25	24	21	22	17	18
Pacific	56	53	41	44	35	34
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	96	96	75	72	57	55
Small Metro	79	66	57	48	49	38
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	64	55	47	41	41	33
< 250K Pop.	48	40	33	27	28	20
Nonmetro	65	62	48	51	39	35
Urbanized	35	33	26	27	20	19
Less Urbanized	56	49	40	39	32	26
Completely Rural	21	28	13	24	9	15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.78D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.42	0.42	0.35	0.36	0.30	0.28
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.86	0.90	0.82	0.71	0.70	0.62
New England	1.68	1.55	1.59	1.32	1.41	0.94
Middle Atlantic	1.01	1.09	0.95	0.84	0.80	0.76
Midwest	0.73	0.70	0.64	0.60	0.52	0.50
East North Central	0.82	0.80	0.72	0.70	0.55	0.57
West North Central	1.51	1.40	1.35	1.17	1.17	1.05
South	0.71	0.72	0.62	0.61	0.54	0.47
South Atlantic	1.07	1.09	0.93	0.93	0.85	0.72
East South Central	1.43	1.53	1.20	1.32	1.11	1.05
West South Central	1.16	1.06	1.05	0.96	0.82	0.75
West	1.02	0.96	0.77	0.81	0.64	0.63
Mountain	1.42	1.39	1.23	1.27	1.00	1.04
Pacific	1.31	1.24	0.96	1.01	0.81	0.79
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.57	0.58	0.47	0.47	0.39	0.38
Small Metro	0.74	0.68	0.61	0.55	0.55	0.48
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.88	0.85	0.74	0.69	0.66	0.60
< 250K Pop.	1.31	1.19	1.06	0.94	0.92	0.77
Nonmetro	1.09	1.02	0.91	0.92	0.80	0.68
Urbanized	1.35	1.37	1.18	1.23	1.08	0.96
Less Urbanized	1.63	1.41	1.38	1.29	1.17	1.00
Completely Rural	3.93	3.70	2.67	3.54	2.04	2.18
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.78P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0000		0.0259		0.0069
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.1847		0.0829		0.4895
New England	0.1388		0.0653		0.2474
Middle Atlantic	0.4770		0.3410		0.8689
Midwest	0.0017		0.2006		0.2805
East North Central	0.0133		0.0567		0.2077
West North Central	0.0498		0.6602		0.8892
South	0.2768		0.4824		0.0927
South Atlantic	0.3566		0.7071		0.2609
East South Central	0.3121		0.3679		0.2358
West South Central	0.9459		0.8327		0.4490
West	0.0019		0.2570		0.0741
Mountain	0.8217		0.1151		0.8609
Pacific	0.0005		0.0369		0.0360
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0060		0.3318		0.5860
Small Metro	0.0003		0.0004		0.0005
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0031		0.0085		0.0177
< 250K Pop.	0.0490		0.0168		0.0051
Nonmetro	0.5953		0.5546		0.3205
Urbanized	0.5611		0.6608		0.3863
Less Urbanized	0.4526		0.8228		0.2642
Completely Rural	0.5290		0.0780		0.2858
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.79C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	153	155	166	156	159	152
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	56	59	71	64	69	64
New England	26	30	29	29	24	24
Middle Atlantic	50	50	65	57	65	59
Midwest	59	60	69	62	68	61
East North Central	47	51	55	50	58	50
West North Central	35	30	42	36	35	36
South	98	98	102	99	97	97
South Atlantic	63	73	70	71	69	68
East South Central	40	32	42	37	37	39
West South Central	64	55	61	56	58	58
West	83	88	83	86	76	80
Mountain	36	39	37	38	33	36
Pacific	75	78	74	76	68	71
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	232	243	182	192	159	172
Small Metro	230	190	176	145	156	126
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	187	155	141	116	124	101
< 250K Pop.	143	118	115	91	99	80
Nonmetro	119	119	101	95	90	86
Urbanized	95	83	78	67	68	62
Less Urbanized	91	84	71	64	66	57
Completely Rural	38	41	33	35	28	28
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.79D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.48	0.48	0.52	0.48	0.49	0.47
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.99	1.03	1.25	1.12	1.22	1.11
New England	1.76	2.04	1.93	1.91	1.61	1.63
Middle Atlantic	1.19	1.19	1.54	1.35	1.54	1.39
Midwest	0.80	0.80	0.93	0.83	0.91	0.82
East North Central	0.92	1.00	1.07	0.98	1.13	0.97
West North Central	1.53	1.30	1.79	1.56	1.51	1.56
South	0.85	0.84	0.88	0.85	0.84	0.83
South Atlantic	1.11	1.25	1.23	1.22	1.22	1.16
East South Central	2.03	1.62	2.14	1.91	1.88	2.02
West South Central	1.64	1.40	1.58	1.42	1.48	1.48
West	1.11	1.15	1.10	1.12	1.01	1.05
Mountain	1.55	1.68	1.60	1.63	1.43	1.51
Pacific	1.44	1.49	1.41	1.44	1.29	1.35
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.70	0.70	0.71	0.69	0.67	0.68
Small Metro	0.77	0.81	0.88	0.82	0.88	0.79
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.94	1.03	1.15	1.03	1.13	0.96
< 250K Pop.	1.49	1.28	1.47	1.35	1.44	1.42
Nonmetro	0.97	0.94	1.20	1.07	1.18	1.09
Urbanized	1.60	1.52	1.72	1.72	1.73	1.87
Less Urbanized	1.19	1.24	1.63	1.40	1.56	1.40
Completely Rural	2.71	2.57	4.73	3.21	4.54	2.92
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.79P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0450		0.7243		0.4147
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.0478		0.2165		0.1288
New England	0.3093		0.3932		0.0688
Middle Atlantic	0.0883		0.3334		0.3575
Midwest	0.0062		0.0194		0.0132
East North Central	0.0243		0.0317		0.0372
West North Central	0.1123		0.3044		0.1809
South	0.6504		0.2529		0.3619
South Atlantic	0.1613		0.9894		0.6999
East South Central	0.4741		0.5085		0.4542
West South Central	0.6595		0.1312		0.1312
West	0.8635		0.4216		0.5309
Mountain	0.7920		0.6561		0.7271
Pacific	0.7586		0.2623		0.3883
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0593		0.6633		0.8028
Small Metro	0.4778		0.5800		0.5558
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.9091		0.8441		0.9536
< 250K Pop.	0.3364		0.5263		0.3783
Nonmetro	0.7211		0.3703		0.0947
Urbanized	0.9132		0.2212		0.1050
Less Urbanized	0.5875		0.9667		0.6706
Completely Rural	0.1970		0.5598		0.2308
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.80C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	783	807	733	758	718	726
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	320	377	309	344	302	332
New England	181	164	134	144	145	141
Middle Atlantic	261	338	278	314	264	301
Midwest	269	278	281	312	274	307
East North Central	221	234	241	244	242	237
West North Central	153	155	143	189	128	187
South	490	520	499	466	483	449
South Atlantic	387	418	421	344	403	339
East South Central	190	146	174	209	177	197
West South Central	231	239	203	237	195	211
West	449	435	328	364	336	336
Mountain	181	194	140	165	135	160
Pacific	413	380	294	325	307	296
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,321	1,320	652	688	616	640
Small Metro	1,082	923	498	482	479	452
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	856	766	393	383	374	354
< 250K Pop.	681	543	299	294	298	278
Nonmetro	668	718	351	375	336	341
Urbanized	445	450	238	238	221	230
Less Urbanized	516	535	276	277	262	249
Completely Rural	274	344	107	135	100	114
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.80D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.43	0.44	0.40	0.41	0.39	0.39
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.91	1.06	0.88	0.97	0.85	0.94
New England	1.95	1.76	1.45	1.55	1.56	1.52
Middle Atlantic	1.01	1.30	1.07	1.20	1.01	1.15
Midwest	0.65	0.67	0.68	0.75	0.67	0.74
East North Central	0.77	0.81	0.84	0.84	0.84	0.82
West North Central	1.25	1.25	1.17	1.52	1.04	1.50
South	0.75	0.78	0.76	0.70	0.74	0.67
South Atlantic	1.11	1.17	1.21	0.97	1.16	0.95
East South Central	1.73	1.31	1.58	1.88	1.61	1.77
West South Central	1.17	1.19	1.03	1.18	0.99	1.05
West	1.09	1.04	0.80	0.87	0.82	0.80
Mountain	1.51	1.58	1.17	1.34	1.13	1.29
Pacific	1.42	1.29	1.01	1.11	1.05	1.01
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.63	0.65	0.56	0.61	0.55	0.57
Small Metro	0.73	0.75	0.73	0.71	0.73	0.68
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.87	0.89	0.89	0.86	0.87	0.81
< 250K Pop.	1.33	1.33	1.27	1.28	1.27	1.24
Nonmetro	0.89	0.91	0.95	0.88	0.93	0.84
Urbanized	1.53	1.48	1.46	1.41	1.42	1.37
Less Urbanized	1.23	1.27	1.38	1.24	1.35	1.19
Completely Rural	2.83	3.25	2.26	2.57	2.11	2.29
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.80P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.4796		0.6353		0.6842
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.0797		0.6026		0.4978
New England	0.8365		0.2761		0.2938
Middle Atlantic	0.0562		0.9501		0.8203
Midwest	0.9892		0.1372		0.2941
East North Central	0.3943		0.3039		0.3157
West North Central	0.2200		0.2511		0.6843
South	0.0953		0.1290		0.1060
South Atlantic	0.0479		0.0240		0.0947
East South Central	0.0708		0.1479		0.4795
West South Central	0.1340		0.5292		0.1989
West	0.4684		0.1693		0.1159
Mountain	0.7117		0.5603		0.9243
Pacific	0.5141		0.0715		0.0747
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.7178		0.9081		0.8655
Small Metro	0.0665		0.6485		0.9268
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.8174		0.5039		0.6202
< 250K Pop.	0.0010		0.9133		0.6399
Nonmetro	0.8669		0.3657		0.5134
Urbanized	0.6823		0.8122		0.6765
Less Urbanized	0.7974		0.1965		0.4746
Completely Rural	0.8000		0.3386		0.8573
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.81C Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	812	833	784	811	765	772
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	327	382	329	360	317	349
New England	180	166	152	152	155	147
Middle Atlantic	271	343	291	327	276	318
Midwest	278	289	300	328	292	320
East North Central	229	243	248	258	249	248
West North Central	157	160	169	199	151	196
South	511	531	526	497	506	477
South Atlantic	404	422	438	362	415	351
East South Central	196	154	181	224	183	211
West South Central	242	247	225	254	221	228
West	466	450	363	385	370	354
Mountain	197	198	154	172	151	169
Pacific	424	394	326	345	336	312
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,405	1,356	699	738	658	683
Small Metro	1,160	970	569	526	536	489
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	925	803	458	411	423	377
< 250K Pop.	743	574	348	325	339	303
Nonmetro	688	759	384	413	361	373
Urbanized	475	474	275	264	250	255
Less Urbanized	552	573	306	303	288	269
Completely Rural	294	362	123	151	114	123
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.81D Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.38	0.38	0.36	0.37	0.36	0.35
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.80	0.93	0.80	0.88	0.77	0.85
New England	1.67	1.54	1.41	1.41	1.44	1.36
Middle Atlantic	0.90	1.13	0.96	1.08	0.91	1.05
Midwest	0.57	0.59	0.62	0.67	0.60	0.66
East North Central	0.68	0.71	0.73	0.76	0.73	0.73
West North Central	1.08	1.08	1.15	1.35	1.03	1.33
South	0.66	0.68	0.68	0.63	0.66	0.61
South Atlantic	0.99	1.02	1.08	0.87	1.02	0.85
East South Central	1.52	1.17	1.40	1.71	1.42	1.61
West South Central	1.02	1.03	0.96	1.06	0.93	0.95
West	0.96	0.91	0.75	0.78	0.76	0.72
Mountain	1.39	1.35	1.08	1.17	1.06	1.15
Pacific	1.23	1.14	0.95	0.99	0.98	0.90
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.56	0.57	0.50	0.55	0.49	0.52
Small Metro	0.63	0.64	0.66	0.63	0.64	0.61
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.77	0.77	0.83	0.76	0.78	0.72
< 250K Pop.	1.17	1.14	1.12	1.14	1.11	1.09
Nonmetro	0.79	0.80	0.89	0.81	0.86	0.77
Urbanized	1.35	1.32	1.36	1.29	1.30	1.26
Less Urbanized	1.08	1.11	1.29	1.12	1.25	1.05
Completely Rural	2.58	2.91	2.22	2.47	2.04	2.10
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.81P Cigarette Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.2907		0.7220		0.8377
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.1612		0.7979		0.7296
New England	0.9698		0.4005		0.4795
Middle Atlantic	0.1112		0.8977		0.9786
Midwest	0.5591		0.3693		0.6476
East North Central	0.1984		0.6009		0.6169
West North Central	0.3874		0.4167		0.9282
South	0.0894		0.2230		0.1732
South Atlantic	0.0307		0.0310		0.0917
East South Central	0.0593		0.1386		0.4218
West South Central	0.1835		0.8265		0.4326
West	0.5051		0.1480		0.1123
Mountain	0.6905		0.5124		0.8660
Pacific	0.5660		0.0560		0.0661
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1.0000		0.9824		0.8057
Small Metro	0.0581		0.8406		0.9015
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.8231		0.6237		0.6981
< 250K Pop.	0.0009		0.7641		0.4932
Nonmetro	0.8239		0.4927		0.7603
Urbanized	0.7114		0.6370		0.9776
Less Urbanized	0.8602		0.2153		0.5270
Completely Rural	0.7146		0.3629		0.9539
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60407

**Table 2.82C Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime and Past Month Smoking Status among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime		Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime and Cigarette Use in Past Month		Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime but No Cigarette Use in Past Month		Percentage Who Did Not Smoke Cigarettes in the Past Month among Lifetime Daily Smokers
Geographic Characteristic	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	893	974	743	732	750	804	0.64	0.64
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	386	455	307	339	345	393	1.45	1.55
New England	226	203	142	144	242	181	3.16	2.55
Middle Atlantic	312	407	273	309	244	349	1.55	1.92
Midwest	328	352	280	302	282	315	1.01	1.11
East North Central	273	276	232	237	236	241	1.19	1.25
West North Central	181	220	157	181	154	200	1.90	2.15
South	548	598	506	449	460	490	1.15	1.09
South Atlantic	411	461	426	334	352	386	1.74	1.57
East South Central	229	190	185	201	165	206	2.20	2.70
West South Central	275	293	197	216	240	223	1.85	1.80
West	475	493	340	329	388	383	1.54	1.44
Mountain	188	197	146	158	155	161	1.96	2.11
Pacific	434	454	306	289	356	348	2.09	1.89
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	950	1,017	632	635	650	745	0.93	1.01
Small Metro	801	715	505	452	522	489	1.11	1.10
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	631	580	402	357	406	408	1.35	1.36
< 250K Pop.	504	434	313	279	325	287	1.89	1.97
Nonmetro	526	579	349	366	405	371	1.57	1.28
Urbanized	365	343	241	250	260	184	2.40	1.96
Less Urbanized	400	464	281	260	276	300	2.21	1.74
Completely Rural	220	238	98	122	153	161	3.97	3.93
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime is defined as ever smoking every day for at least 30 days. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60407

**Table 2.82D Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime and Past Month Smoking Status among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime		Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime and Cigarette Use in Past Month		Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime but No Cigarette Use in Past Month		Percentage Who Did Not Smoke Cigarettes in the Past Month among Lifetime Daily Smokers
Geographic Characteristic	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.37	0.40	0.31	0.30	0.31	0.33	0.64	0.64
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.85	1.00	0.68	0.74	0.76	0.86	1.45	1.55
New England	1.89	1.69	1.19	1.20	2.03	1.52	3.16	2.55
Middle Atlantic	0.93	1.21	0.81	0.92	0.73	1.04	1.55	1.92
Midwest	0.61	0.65	0.52	0.55	0.52	0.58	1.01	1.11
East North Central	0.72	0.72	0.61	0.62	0.62	0.63	1.19	1.25
West North Central	1.11	1.34	0.96	1.10	0.95	1.22	1.90	2.15
South	0.64	0.68	0.59	0.51	0.53	0.56	1.15	1.09
South Atlantic	0.91	1.00	0.94	0.72	0.78	0.84	1.74	1.57
East South Central	1.59	1.31	1.29	1.39	1.15	1.42	2.20	2.70
West South Central	1.04	1.09	0.74	0.80	0.90	0.83	1.85	1.80
West	0.87	0.89	0.62	0.59	0.71	0.69	1.54	1.44
Mountain	1.17	1.20	0.91	0.96	0.97	0.98	1.96	2.11
Pacific	1.12	1.16	0.79	0.74	0.92	0.89	2.09	1.89
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.54	0.59	0.44	0.44	0.43	0.49	0.93	1.01
Small Metro	0.64	0.67	0.55	0.51	0.56	0.57	1.11	1.10
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.73	0.81	0.65	0.61	0.65	0.72	1.35	1.36
< 250K Pop.	1.26	1.23	1.00	0.93	1.04	1.03	1.89	1.97
Nonmetro	0.84	0.85	0.73	0.69	0.85	0.72	1.57	1.28
Urbanized	1.31	1.33	1.13	1.16	1.31	1.00	2.40	1.96
Less Urbanized	1.15	1.21	1.08	0.91	1.15	1.07	2.21	1.74
Completely Rural	2.99	2.74	1.73	1.73	2.84	2.49	3.97	3.93
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime is defined as ever smoking every day for at least 30 days. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60407

Table 2.82P Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime and Past Month Smoking Status among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime		Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime and Cigarette Use in Past Month		Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime but No Cigarette Use in Past Month		Percentage Who Did Not Smoke Cigarettes in the Past Month among Lifetime Daily Smokers
Geographic Characteristic	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.4565		0.9369		0.3323		0.4688
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.5997		0.8474		0.6669		0.8514
New England	0.9708		0.4725		0.6046		0.4595
Middle Atlantic	0.5268		0.8887		0.3698		0.4868
Midwest	0.6844		0.5444		0.8983		0.6873
East North Central	0.3190		0.8897		0.1995		0.3268
West North Central	0.0411		0.3932		0.1347		0.5564
South	0.1189		0.1562		0.6506		0.6443
South Atlantic	0.0208		0.1031		0.2981		0.7906
East South Central	0.0272		0.5059		0.0708		0.3627
West South Central	0.2192		0.3844		0.4642		0.8709
West	0.7673		0.1302		0.0920		0.0312
Mountain	0.4494		0.9195		0.3091		0.4609
Pacific	0.9868		0.1033		0.1617		0.0400
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.8172		0.8969		0.6848		0.7195
Small Metro	0.1266		0.7580		0.1392		0.3842
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.7116		0.9083		0.6008		0.6745
< 250K Pop.	0.0557		0.5426		0.0840		0.3311
Nonmetro	0.4753		0.6245		0.7488		0.9927
Urbanized	0.7546		0.7024		0.4663		0.4755
Less Urbanized	0.1106		0.6327		0.2062		0.5062
Completely Rural	0.5836		0.7163		0.4105		0.4221
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Daily Cigarette Use in Lifetime is defined as ever smoking every day for at least 30 days. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.83C Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	656	669	267	295	245	267
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	239	238	83	93	65	78
New England	100	103	44	37	32	29
Middle Atlantic	217	215	70	86	56	72
Midwest	288	276	105	133	97	126
East North Central	209	223	83	105	73	98
West North Central	197	160	65	83	64	78
South	417	446	198	228	190	206
South Atlantic	310	347	155	158	143	141
East South Central	179	196	88	111	85	107
West South Central	213	203	86	112	94	98
West	328	325	116	111	96	99
Mountain	126	185	54	72	43	64
Pacific	309	262	103	84	86	75
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	591	550	170	164	149	148
Small Metro	489	439	214	195	191	169
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	358	341	162	152	148	133
< 250K Pop.	329	285	142	118	127	101
Nonmetro	395	394	143	186	133	169
Urbanized	248	241	89	120	83	114
Less Urbanized	276	303	109	134	98	115
Completely Rural	184	157	61	74	56	71
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.83D Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.27	0.28	0.11	0.12	0.10	0.11
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.52	0.52	0.18	0.20	0.14	0.17
New England	0.83	0.86	0.37	0.31	0.27	0.25
Middle Atlantic	0.65	0.64	0.21	0.26	0.17	0.21
Midwest	0.53	0.51	0.19	0.24	0.18	0.23
East North Central	0.55	0.59	0.22	0.27	0.19	0.26
West North Central	1.21	0.98	0.40	0.51	0.39	0.47
South	0.48	0.51	0.23	0.26	0.22	0.23
South Atlantic	0.69	0.75	0.34	0.34	0.32	0.31
East South Central	1.25	1.35	0.61	0.76	0.59	0.74
West South Central	0.80	0.75	0.32	0.42	0.35	0.36
West	0.60	0.59	0.21	0.20	0.18	0.18
Mountain	0.79	1.13	0.34	0.44	0.27	0.39
Pacific	0.80	0.67	0.27	0.21	0.22	0.19
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.37	0.37	0.13	0.12	0.11	0.11
Small Metro	0.50	0.49	0.27	0.26	0.24	0.22
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.59	0.58	0.31	0.30	0.29	0.27
< 250K Pop.	0.90	0.91	0.52	0.46	0.47	0.40
Nonmetro	0.70	0.73	0.32	0.42	0.31	0.39
Urbanized	1.13	1.09	0.49	0.72	0.47	0.68
Less Urbanized	1.02	0.93	0.50	0.56	0.47	0.51
Completely Rural	2.59	2.64	1.41	1.27	1.32	1.22
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.83P Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.7226		0.1500		0.2195
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.4663		0.0600		0.1022
New England	0.5087		0.6736		0.9094
Middle Atlantic	0.6217		0.0574		0.0785
Midwest	0.1232		0.0157		0.0601
East North Central	0.1510		0.0470		0.1406
West North Central	0.4972		0.1713		0.2435
South	0.0599		0.5807		0.8537
South Atlantic	0.0356		0.7735		0.4703
East South Central	0.5097		0.1633		0.2035
West South Central	0.9661		0.7985		0.8517
West	0.8879		0.1242		0.5645
Mountain	0.8156		0.9878		0.7379
Pacific	0.7443		0.0595		0.3393
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.8713		0.6943		0.6942
Small Metro	0.9542		0.6172		0.9911
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.6722		0.9823		0.9167
< 250K Pop.	0.6039		0.4102		0.8725
Nonmetro	0.8368		0.0659		0.0456
Urbanized	0.9298		0.1576		0.0858
Less Urbanized	0.6052		0.1973		0.2719
Completely Rural	0.0837		0.7216		0.9245
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.84C Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	58	58	45	46	32	29
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	20	19	16	15	10	9
New England	8	8	7	7	5	4
Middle Atlantic	18	17	14	13	9	8
Midwest	24	23	20	20	14	11
East North Central	16	17	15	14	11	8
West North Central	17	16	13	13	9	8
South	43	38	31	30	22	23
South Atlantic	32	28	21	22	15	16
East South Central	18	17	16	14	11	11
West South Central	22	20	17	15	13	12
West	23	29	21	23	14	11
Mountain	14	14	13	12	10	4
Pacific	19	25	16	19	10	10
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	32	38	26	31	16	16
Small Metro	35	32	26	24	19	17
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	28	26	20	19	16	13
< 250K Pop.	22	20	17	15	11	11
Nonmetro	40	36	32	26	22	20
Urbanized	19	22	15	17	11	14
Less Urbanized	34	25	27	18	18	12
Completely Rural	13	17	7	10	6	8
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.84D Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.23	0.23	0.18	0.18	0.13	0.12
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.43	0.41	0.34	0.33	0.22	0.20
New England	0.72	0.67	0.62	0.57	0.39	0.32
Middle Atlantic	0.52	0.49	0.41	0.39	0.27	0.25
Midwest	0.42	0.41	0.35	0.34	0.25	0.20
East North Central	0.41	0.42	0.38	0.34	0.28	0.20
West North Central	1.03	0.95	0.75	0.81	0.54	0.48
South	0.48	0.42	0.35	0.33	0.25	0.26
South Atlantic	0.70	0.60	0.45	0.47	0.32	0.35
East South Central	1.26	1.20	1.08	0.99	0.74	0.79
West South Central	0.73	0.68	0.57	0.52	0.43	0.41
West	0.39	0.47	0.35	0.37	0.24	0.18
Mountain	0.80	0.81	0.75	0.69	0.59	0.23
Pacific	0.44	0.57	0.38	0.44	0.23	0.24
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.24	0.26	0.19	0.22	0.12	0.12
Small Metro	0.41	0.41	0.32	0.31	0.24	0.22
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.48	0.48	0.37	0.36	0.29	0.25
< 250K Pop.	0.84	0.75	0.62	0.60	0.41	0.46
Nonmetro	0.83	0.72	0.66	0.54	0.48	0.44
Urbanized	0.98	1.17	0.77	0.98	0.60	0.83
Less Urbanized	1.29	0.90	1.03	0.69	0.74	0.51
Completely Rural	3.03	2.52	1.82	1.56	1.43	1.37
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.84P Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	1.0000		0.8252		0.2407
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.8308		0.6261		0.7068
New England	0.8858		0.8227		0.4743
Middle Atlantic	0.7603		0.6645		0.9434
Midwest	0.3331		0.4373		0.6010
East North Central	0.9825		0.9160		0.2923
West North Central	0.1641		0.2821		0.6567
South	0.5285		0.9270		0.7102
South Atlantic	0.7437		0.4205		0.4490
East South Central	0.8805		0.9139		0.7100
West South Central	0.1247		0.2750		0.9247
West	0.9754		0.6567		0.0079
Mountain	0.8216		0.5797		0.0127
Pacific	0.9061		0.8887		0.1574
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.2936		0.0624		0.9756
Small Metro	0.2638		0.1958		0.1966
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.1390		0.1608		0.1257
< 250K Pop.	0.8051		0.8788		0.9655
Nonmetro	0.8236		0.7850		0.5671
Urbanized	0.3136		0.8785		0.4656
Less Urbanized	0.4461		0.4179		0.0426
Completely Rural	0.7892		0.5291		0.2976
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.85C Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	119	120	74	82	60	64
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	42	42	27	31	19	21
New England	14	18	12	16	9	10
Middle Atlantic	40	38	24	26	16	18
Midwest	55	51	34	37	31	27
East North Central	42	41	25	28	23	19
West North Central	34	28	22	24	20	19
South	72	75	46	53	38	45
South Atlantic	46	53	30	36	25	30
East South Central	37	31	22	25	17	21
West South Central	42	43	27	32	23	26
West	65	65	39	39	29	31
Mountain	30	30	18	18	15	15
Pacific	58	56	35	34	26	28
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	95	101	50	60	35	45
Small Metro	105	92	55	56	44	39
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	87	72	46	44	37	29
< 250K Pop.	61	60	31	35	25	26
Nonmetro	64	63	40	41	33	35
Urbanized	45	40	25	22	20	18
Less Urbanized	52	49	28	36	24	29
Completely Rural	20	21	16	15	11	11
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.85D Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.37	0.37	0.23	0.25	0.19	0.20
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.74	0.74	0.48	0.54	0.33	0.36
New England	0.91	1.19	0.81	1.10	0.62	0.65
Middle Atlantic	0.95	0.90	0.58	0.61	0.39	0.44
Midwest	0.74	0.68	0.45	0.50	0.41	0.37
East North Central	0.82	0.79	0.50	0.55	0.44	0.38
West North Central	1.46	1.18	0.94	1.04	0.89	0.82
South	0.62	0.64	0.40	0.46	0.33	0.38
South Atlantic	0.80	0.90	0.53	0.62	0.44	0.52
East South Central	1.88	1.58	1.11	1.26	0.87	1.10
West South Central	1.09	1.10	0.71	0.83	0.60	0.65
West	0.86	0.85	0.51	0.51	0.39	0.41
Mountain	1.30	1.29	0.79	0.76	0.67	0.63
Pacific	1.10	1.06	0.66	0.65	0.49	0.53
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.48	0.49	0.28	0.32	0.20	0.25
Small Metro	0.70	0.68	0.44	0.48	0.38	0.35
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.89	0.80	0.57	0.55	0.48	0.39
< 250K Pop.	1.11	1.27	0.68	0.91	0.65	0.70
Nonmetro	0.95	0.96	0.66	0.73	0.60	0.65
Urbanized	1.24	1.41	0.88	0.93	0.81	0.78
Less Urbanized	1.46	1.46	0.96	1.26	0.82	1.07
Completely Rural	3.90	2.60	3.78	2.45	2.90	2.20
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.85P Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.3100		0.1060		0.4928
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.9187		0.4272		0.6078
New England	0.3193		0.2597		0.4684
Middle Atlantic	0.6069		0.7855		0.8504
Midwest	0.0428		0.3552		0.4464
East North Central	0.2008		0.3114		0.7981
West North Central	0.0765		0.8141		0.3934
South	0.5991		0.2394		0.2911
South Atlantic	0.5684		0.5570		0.5981
East South Central	0.5698		0.4814		0.6775
West South Central	0.8114		0.4282		0.3682
West	0.6430		0.7395		0.7203
Mountain	0.7101		0.6215		0.8968
Pacific	0.7631		0.9248		0.7534
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.4441		0.0302		0.0539
Small Metro	0.9908		0.4125		0.6643
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2945		0.4220		0.1597
< 250K Pop.	0.1412		0.0149		0.2821
Nonmetro	0.4549		0.7515		0.8486
Urbanized	0.3217		0.3088		0.6889
Less Urbanized	0.8558		0.6664		0.9414
Completely Rural	0.3895		0.4211		0.5178
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.86C Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	641	645	248	277	236	256
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	233	227	68	82	57	72
New England	103	99	34	30	26	26
Middle Atlantic	209	206	59	76	51	67
Midwest	280	267	101	126	95	121
East North Central	202	218	76	100	69	95
West North Central	192	152	67	76	66	74
South	409	434	186	216	185	197
South Atlantic	311	336	147	150	141	137
East South Central	174	188	81	107	80	105
West South Central	200	196	81	109	90	94
West	321	310	106	97	92	92
Mountain	121	181	51	66	39	62
Pacific	303	247	93	70	83	67
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	570	532	157	155	144	143
Small Metro	451	406	191	180	179	163
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	334	321	145	140	138	128
< 250K Pop.	296	260	130	110	122	98
Nonmetro	388	373	130	174	127	162
Urbanized	235	226	82	113	79	108
Less Urbanized	266	279	95	119	92	107
Completely Rural	172	148	54	68	52	67
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.86D Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.35	0.35	0.14	0.15	0.13	0.14
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.66	0.64	0.19	0.23	0.16	0.20
New England	1.11	1.07	0.37	0.32	0.28	0.28
Middle Atlantic	0.80	0.79	0.23	0.29	0.19	0.26
Midwest	0.68	0.65	0.25	0.30	0.23	0.29
East North Central	0.70	0.75	0.26	0.35	0.24	0.33
West North Central	1.56	1.22	0.54	0.61	0.54	0.59
South	0.62	0.65	0.28	0.32	0.28	0.30
South Atlantic	0.89	0.94	0.42	0.42	0.40	0.38
East South Central	1.58	1.69	0.73	0.97	0.73	0.94
West South Central	1.02	0.98	0.41	0.54	0.45	0.47
West	0.78	0.74	0.26	0.23	0.22	0.22
Mountain	1.01	1.47	0.43	0.53	0.33	0.50
Pacific	1.04	0.84	0.32	0.24	0.29	0.23
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.47	0.47	0.15	0.15	0.14	0.14
Small Metro	0.65	0.62	0.33	0.32	0.31	0.29
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.78	0.73	0.39	0.38	0.37	0.34
< 250K Pop.	1.14	1.16	0.67	0.58	0.63	0.52
Nonmetro	0.92	0.92	0.39	0.52	0.39	0.49
Urbanized	1.44	1.36	0.62	0.90	0.60	0.87
Less Urbanized	1.34	1.17	0.59	0.67	0.58	0.62
Completely Rural	3.01	3.30	1.62	1.52	1.58	1.49
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.86P Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.8452		0.3006		0.2108
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.4515		0.0720		0.0891
New England	0.6051		0.9774		0.9881
Middle Atlantic	0.5594		0.0450		0.0614
Midwest	0.0603		0.0326		0.0272
East North Central	0.0846		0.0712		0.0831
West North Central	0.3869		0.2458		0.1696
South	0.0731		0.7539		0.9328
South Atlantic	0.0371		0.5826		0.3537
East South Central	0.5679		0.1843		0.1985
West South Central	0.8922		0.8349		0.9516
West	0.8103		0.0806		0.7216
Mountain	0.8715		0.9655		0.4896
Pacific	0.6892		0.0313		0.3506
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.9173		0.4940		0.8927
Small Metro	1.0000		0.5825		0.8023
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.9302		0.6211		0.6823
< 250K Pop.	0.8698		0.7703		0.9373
Nonmetro	0.9121		0.0404		0.0293
Urbanized	0.9880		0.0952		0.0778
Less Urbanized	0.5315		0.1571		0.1595
Completely Rural	0.0820		0.7276		0.8949
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.87C Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	647	667	260	289	243	264
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	238	237	80	92	62	77
New England	98	104	43	37	32	29
Middle Atlantic	217	214	68	84	54	71
Midwest	282	275	104	131	99	124
East North Central	206	223	81	104	74	97
West North Central	191	158	66	80	66	76
South	414	443	192	223	188	204
South Atlantic	310	343	151	155	142	140
East South Central	177	193	85	110	85	107
West South Central	210	202	82	111	92	97
West	320	322	113	106	94	98
Mountain	125	184	53	70	42	64
Pacific	301	260	100	79	84	74
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	588	546	166	161	147	148
Small Metro	479	433	208	191	190	168
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	351	338	159	148	147	132
< 250K Pop.	321	279	138	116	126	100
Nonmetro	388	387	136	180	131	165
Urbanized	242	235	87	117	82	111
Less Urbanized	272	292	101	127	96	112
Completely Rural	178	154	58	71	55	69
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.87D Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.30	0.31	0.12	0.13	0.11	0.12
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.58	0.58	0.20	0.22	0.15	0.19
New England	0.91	0.97	0.40	0.35	0.29	0.27
Middle Atlantic	0.72	0.71	0.23	0.28	0.18	0.23
Midwest	0.58	0.56	0.21	0.27	0.20	0.25
East North Central	0.61	0.66	0.24	0.30	0.22	0.29
West North Central	1.31	1.07	0.45	0.54	0.45	0.52
South	0.54	0.56	0.25	0.28	0.24	0.26
South Atlantic	0.76	0.83	0.37	0.37	0.35	0.34
East South Central	1.37	1.48	0.66	0.84	0.66	0.81
West South Central	0.89	0.84	0.35	0.46	0.39	0.40
West	0.66	0.65	0.23	0.22	0.19	0.20
Mountain	0.88	1.25	0.38	0.48	0.30	0.44
Pacific	0.87	0.75	0.29	0.23	0.24	0.21
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.41	0.41	0.14	0.14	0.12	0.12
Small Metro	0.56	0.54	0.30	0.28	0.27	0.25
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.66	0.64	0.35	0.33	0.33	0.30
< 250K Pop.	0.99	1.01	0.57	0.50	0.53	0.44
Nonmetro	0.77	0.82	0.35	0.46	0.34	0.43
Urbanized	1.24	1.20	0.55	0.78	0.53	0.75
Less Urbanized	1.15	1.03	0.54	0.61	0.52	0.55
Completely Rural	2.75	2.95	1.56	1.39	1.46	1.36
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.87P Smokeless Tobacco Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.7058		0.1504		0.1681
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.4764		0.0652		0.0842
New England	0.5009		0.6996		0.8297
Middle Atlantic	0.6389		0.0599		0.0694
Midwest	0.1441		0.0201		0.0522
East North Central	0.1504		0.0459		0.1106
West North Central	0.5890		0.2281		0.2675
South	0.0642		0.5615		0.8892
South Atlantic	0.0313		0.6854		0.4168
East South Central	0.5084		0.1489		0.1864
West South Central	0.8559		0.6566		0.8632
West	0.8867		0.1336		0.8174
Mountain	0.8184		0.9230		0.4881
Pacific	0.7391		0.0532		0.4299
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.8169		0.9414		0.6938
Small Metro	0.9915		0.5029		0.9101
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.7525		0.8383		0.9591
< 250K Pop.	0.6570		0.3935		0.8790
Nonmetro	0.8172		0.0540		0.0353
Urbanized	0.8566		0.1589		0.1001
Less Urbanized	0.5482		0.1393		0.1617
Completely Rural	0.0714		0.6543		0.8270
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.88C Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	803	852	448	481	323	354
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	364	350	192	208	117	153
New England	214	161	107	85	69	66
Middle Atlantic	297	311	161	190	95	138
Midwest	349	345	193	215	152	171
East North Central	284	280	167	167	137	129
West North Central	202	197	97	131	67	111
South	481	536	277	302	212	223
South Atlantic	378	426	216	217	171	161
East South Central	176	205	108	130	74	104
West South Central	239	258	136	157	101	110
West	399	430	224	234	151	158
Mountain	170	215	104	106	80	62
Pacific	363	370	200	205	128	145
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	991	884	418	412	279	281
Small Metro	652	635	272	259	191	177
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	513	511	217	223	147	159
< 250K Pop.	441	411	172	146	128	90
Nonmetro	458	494	179	204	132	136
Urbanized	308	300	118	123	80	84
Less Urbanized	348	361	129	155	100	98
Completely Rural	197	250	48	76	34	60
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.88D Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.33	0.35	0.19	0.20	0.13	0.15
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.80	0.77	0.42	0.46	0.26	0.34
New England	1.79	1.35	0.90	0.71	0.58	0.55
Middle Atlantic	0.88	0.92	0.48	0.56	0.28	0.41
Midwest	0.64	0.63	0.36	0.39	0.28	0.31
East North Central	0.75	0.73	0.44	0.44	0.36	0.34
West North Central	1.24	1.20	0.60	0.79	0.41	0.68
South	0.56	0.61	0.32	0.34	0.25	0.25
South Atlantic	0.84	0.92	0.48	0.47	0.38	0.35
East South Central	1.22	1.41	0.75	0.90	0.51	0.72
West South Central	0.90	0.96	0.51	0.58	0.38	0.41
West	0.73	0.78	0.41	0.42	0.28	0.28
Mountain	1.06	1.31	0.65	0.64	0.50	0.38
Pacific	0.94	0.95	0.52	0.53	0.33	0.37
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.49	0.50	0.28	0.29	0.20	0.21
Small Metro	0.59	0.62	0.34	0.33	0.24	0.24
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.66	0.72	0.42	0.42	0.30	0.32
< 250K Pop.	1.16	1.15	0.59	0.54	0.44	0.36
Nonmetro	0.71	0.75	0.39	0.43	0.30	0.30
Urbanized	1.09	1.11	0.61	0.70	0.43	0.51
Less Urbanized	1.11	0.97	0.53	0.63	0.44	0.42
Completely Rural	2.48	3.09	1.04	1.20	0.84	1.05
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.88P Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.9104		0.3315		0.6155
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.7785		0.4842		0.6351
New England	0.7491		0.8579		0.4178
Middle Atlantic	0.5978		0.3710		0.3142
Midwest	0.4305		0.9560		0.6009
East North Central	0.7465		0.9682		0.6250
West North Central	0.3645		0.8771		0.8299
South	0.8100		0.3490		0.8512
South Atlantic	0.9718		0.7974		0.4407
East South Central	0.9185		0.1524		0.7331
West South Central	0.7213		0.7576		0.5889
West	0.3586		0.8898		0.4855
Mountain	0.7399		0.4102		0.1244
Pacific	0.3776		0.5683		0.9913
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.6033		0.5555		0.4034
Small Metro	0.9116		0.9182		0.9617
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2631		0.2974		0.0811
< 250K Pop.	0.2674		0.1798		0.0111
Nonmetro	0.4653		0.2094		0.7061
Urbanized	0.7734		0.3538		0.8227
Less Urbanized	0.4170		0.6419		0.8042
Completely Rural	0.9040		0.0840		0.2141
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.89C Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	80	79	67	67	44	46
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	31	31	29	26	22	17
New England	13	15	13	13	10	8
Middle Atlantic	28	27	25	23	20	15
Midwest	30	32	26	28	17	21
East North Central	23	25	20	22	14	15
West North Central	19	18	17	18	9	15
South	54	47	42	37	26	26
South Atlantic	42	35	32	28	17	21
East South Central	19	17	13	14	10	9
West South Central	28	26	24	21	16	13
West	41	44	34	41	23	24
Mountain	18	24	16	22	9	12
Pacific	37	37	30	34	21	20
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	67	65	58	54	37	34
Small Metro	50	47	38	38	23	23
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	40	39	30	31	18	18
< 250K Pop.	31	26	24	21	15	15
Nonmetro	43	38	35	33	22	21
Urbanized	24	21	20	18	12	12
Less Urbanized	35	27	27	20	17	13
Completely Rural	13	20	8	16	5	11
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.89D Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.32	0.31	0.27	0.27	0.18	0.18
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.68	0.69	0.63	0.57	0.49	0.38
New England	1.14	1.31	1.13	1.10	0.86	0.68
Middle Atlantic	0.83	0.81	0.76	0.67	0.59	0.46
Midwest	0.53	0.56	0.46	0.50	0.30	0.37
East North Central	0.57	0.63	0.51	0.56	0.36	0.38
West North Central	1.15	1.09	0.99	1.07	0.55	0.89
South	0.60	0.52	0.47	0.41	0.28	0.29
South Atlantic	0.91	0.75	0.71	0.60	0.38	0.45
East South Central	1.28	1.17	0.90	1.00	0.69	0.61
West South Central	0.94	0.88	0.81	0.71	0.54	0.45
West	0.69	0.73	0.57	0.67	0.38	0.39
Mountain	1.05	1.35	0.90	1.24	0.49	0.70
Pacific	0.86	0.85	0.71	0.78	0.49	0.46
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.45	0.42	0.39	0.37	0.26	0.24
Small Metro	0.58	0.55	0.47	0.46	0.29	0.30
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.64	0.67	0.52	0.56	0.34	0.35
< 250K Pop.	1.08	0.91	0.87	0.77	0.55	0.59
Nonmetro	0.83	0.74	0.71	0.68	0.47	0.47
Urbanized	1.19	1.12	1.02	1.01	0.64	0.71
Less Urbanized	1.24	1.01	1.03	0.80	0.68	0.58
Completely Rural	2.55	2.47	1.74	2.56	1.13	1.91
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.89P Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0887		0.3034		0.0242
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.4791		0.3102		0.2435
New England	0.6204		0.5567		0.4813
Middle Atlantic	0.5921		0.4045		0.3432
Midwest	0.3002		0.5135		0.2847
East North Central	0.5176		0.9491		0.1666
West North Central	0.3940		0.3441		0.9812
South	0.4862		0.4040		0.3589
South Atlantic	0.2993		0.4890		1.0000
East South Central	0.7655		0.6174		0.2557
West South Central	0.7087		0.8086		0.3770
West	0.2883		0.7763		0.1454
Mountain	0.3280		0.1889		0.6391
Pacific	0.0744		0.6605		0.1621
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.5705		0.7828		0.4236
Small Metro	0.2183		0.4749		0.0431
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.3089		0.5922		0.1106
< 250K Pop.	0.4574		0.6291		0.2380
Nonmetro	0.1772		0.3456		0.1615
Urbanized	0.2620		0.7057		0.2390
Less Urbanized	0.0798		0.0664		0.1185
Completely Rural	0.1373		0.1365		0.3149
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.90C Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	152	152	122	123	97	92
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	65	60	52	51	37	36
New England	32	26	24	23	19	19
Middle Atlantic	56	53	46	44	32	29
Midwest	60	56	53	53	41	40
East North Central	49	43	43	42	31	32
West North Central	34	33	31	32	28	24
South	90	97	77	77	63	57
South Atlantic	66	71	54	54	45	41
East South Central	34	32	33	29	26	22
West South Central	51	52	44	43	35	29
West	84	86	57	70	48	53
Mountain	31	40	25	33	23	23
Pacific	78	76	50	62	42	48
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	176	181	116	122	84	77
Small Metro	163	147	108	103	70	64
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	143	120	91	85	55	56
< 250K Pop.	93	88	63	60	45	35
Nonmetro	93	86	62	58	36	38
Urbanized	72	62	46	41	28	25
Less Urbanized	67	60	45	43	26	28
Completely Rural	25	27	16	20	10	9
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.90D Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.47	0.47	0.38	0.38	0.30	0.28
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.14	1.05	0.92	0.89	0.65	0.63
New England	2.16	1.71	1.63	1.57	1.25	1.26
Middle Atlantic	1.33	1.26	1.09	1.05	0.77	0.69
Midwest	0.80	0.75	0.72	0.71	0.55	0.54
East North Central	0.95	0.84	0.84	0.81	0.60	0.63
West North Central	1.48	1.42	1.36	1.36	1.19	1.02
South	0.78	0.83	0.67	0.66	0.54	0.48
South Atlantic	1.16	1.22	0.94	0.93	0.80	0.71
East South Central	1.73	1.67	1.71	1.46	1.32	1.14
West South Central	1.31	1.33	1.14	1.09	0.90	0.75
West	1.12	1.12	0.76	0.92	0.64	0.69
Mountain	1.35	1.70	1.10	1.43	1.00	0.99
Pacific	1.49	1.43	0.96	1.17	0.81	0.91
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.70	0.68	0.53	0.54	0.43	0.39
Small Metro	0.77	0.83	0.67	0.70	0.52	0.52
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.98	1.04	0.87	0.86	0.64	0.66
< 250K Pop.	1.36	1.41	1.12	1.23	0.86	0.86
Nonmetro	0.95	1.02	0.80	0.83	0.58	0.68
Urbanized	1.36	1.52	1.14	1.39	0.84	1.03
Less Urbanized	1.41	1.48	1.31	1.29	0.95	1.02
Completely Rural	3.64	2.42	3.59	2.20	2.52	1.59
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.90P Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.1569		0.7218		0.0685
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.6778		0.5467		0.8253
New England	0.4541		0.6494		0.9854
Middle Atlantic	0.9398		0.6535		0.7852
Midwest	0.0177		0.9385		0.0693
East North Central	0.1835		0.6962		0.2063
West North Central	0.0235		0.6919		0.1817
South	0.6796		0.8809		0.1933
South Atlantic	0.2192		0.6235		0.7035
East South Central	0.6144		0.4839		0.2162
West South Central	0.2189		0.3942		0.3336
West	0.9096		0.1876		0.8115
Mountain	0.4837		0.6863		0.0416
Pacific	0.8567		0.0916		0.4480
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.4481		0.5782		0.0554
Small Metro	0.1998		0.9937		0.8853
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2338		0.7865		0.1626
< 250K Pop.	0.6411		0.7150		0.0868
Nonmetro	0.8767		0.9532		0.1879
Urbanized	0.8565		0.8803		0.1321
Less Urbanized	0.7992		0.6808		0.9215
Completely Rural	0.7498		0.2705		0.5124
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.91C Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	769	822	420	450	311	335
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	344	344	183	192	113	145
New England	207	159	94	75	74	59
Middle Atlantic	277	306	157	177	87	132
Midwest	338	336	175	201	137	164
East North Central	276	277	154	158	122	125
West North Central	194	188	82	121	60	104
South	458	519	257	282	210	213
South Atlantic	358	409	194	203	167	152
East South Central	169	200	98	126	76	100
West South Central	231	244	136	145	103	105
West	382	408	216	212	145	142
Mountain	170	202	100	95	83	52
Pacific	342	352	192	189	119	132
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	917	844	386	384	260	264
Small Metro	583	596	221	229	174	165
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	449	477	174	199	130	149
< 250K Pop.	398	379	143	121	119	79
Nonmetro	437	463	156	181	119	127
Urbanized	280	279	101	109	73	77
Less Urbanized	321	334	108	138	86	91
Completely Rural	183	235	36	67	28	56
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.91D Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.42	0.44	0.23	0.24	0.17	0.18
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.98	0.97	0.52	0.54	0.32	0.41
New England	2.23	1.71	1.02	0.81	0.80	0.64
Middle Atlantic	1.06	1.17	0.60	0.68	0.33	0.51
Midwest	0.82	0.81	0.43	0.49	0.33	0.40
East North Central	0.96	0.96	0.54	0.55	0.43	0.43
West North Central	1.58	1.51	0.67	0.97	0.49	0.84
South	0.70	0.78	0.39	0.42	0.32	0.32
South Atlantic	1.02	1.15	0.56	0.57	0.48	0.43
East South Central	1.54	1.80	0.89	1.14	0.69	0.90
West South Central	1.17	1.22	0.69	0.72	0.52	0.53
West	0.93	0.98	0.53	0.51	0.35	0.34
Mountain	1.42	1.64	0.84	0.77	0.69	0.42
Pacific	1.17	1.20	0.66	0.64	0.41	0.45
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.59	0.63	0.35	0.36	0.25	0.26
Small Metro	0.75	0.79	0.40	0.40	0.31	0.30
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.85	0.92	0.48	0.51	0.37	0.40
< 250K Pop.	1.44	1.46	0.71	0.62	0.60	0.42
Nonmetro	0.90	0.94	0.46	0.53	0.36	0.38
Urbanized	1.37	1.38	0.74	0.85	0.54	0.62
Less Urbanized	1.40	1.24	0.62	0.77	0.52	0.53
Completely Rural	3.13	3.88	1.06	1.49	0.89	1.29
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.91P Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.7663		0.2647		0.7390
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.8763		0.2905		0.4623
New England	0.6291		0.9935		0.4658
Middle Atlantic	0.6255		0.2377		0.1951
Midwest	0.1965		0.8746		0.9385
East North Central	0.5455		0.9061		0.9786
West North Central	0.1626		0.6396		0.8587
South	0.7081		0.2357		0.7693
South Atlantic	0.7298		0.6077		0.4834
East South Central	0.8262		0.0738		0.4130
West South Central	0.9679		0.9135		0.3278
West	0.4082		0.7758		0.6702
Mountain	0.7260		0.3185		0.4053
Pacific	0.4438		0.8508		0.9776
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.7265		0.6454		0.7779
Small Metro	0.6452		0.6845		0.7007
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.1260		0.1963		0.0907
< 250K Pop.	0.2763		0.2364		0.0725
Nonmetro	0.3525		0.1321		0.3212
Urbanized	0.6769		0.2977		0.6888
Less Urbanized	0.2949		0.3648		0.5979
Completely Rural	0.8043		0.2726		0.2185
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.92C Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	801	847	442	478	323	351
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	363	352	189	205	115	153
New England	219	161	103	84	71	65
Middle Atlantic	293	313	160	187	92	138
Midwest	349	345	191	213	150	171
East North Central	286	280	164	167	135	130
West North Central	201	196	98	128	66	109
South	477	531	273	298	212	220
South Atlantic	375	417	211	212	170	157
East South Central	172	203	108	132	75	105
West South Central	240	254	135	155	101	109
West	398	421	222	233	153	155
Mountain	173	210	105	104	80	59
Pacific	359	362	197	205	130	143
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	980	879	409	407	276	278
Small Metro	635	624	260	253	190	174
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	501	500	208	216	146	155
< 250K Pop.	429	404	163	142	128	89
Nonmetro	447	482	174	197	126	134
Urbanized	301	290	114	118	77	82
Less Urbanized	337	352	121	149	93	97
Completely Rural	191	244	47	72	33	58
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.92D Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.37	0.39	0.21	0.22	0.15	0.16
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.89	0.86	0.46	0.50	0.28	0.37
New England	2.03	1.49	0.95	0.78	0.66	0.60
Middle Atlantic	0.97	1.03	0.53	0.62	0.31	0.46
Midwest	0.72	0.71	0.39	0.44	0.31	0.35
East North Central	0.84	0.82	0.48	0.49	0.40	0.38
West North Central	1.37	1.33	0.67	0.87	0.45	0.74
South	0.62	0.68	0.35	0.38	0.27	0.28
South Atlantic	0.92	1.01	0.52	0.51	0.42	0.38
East South Central	1.33	1.55	0.83	1.01	0.58	0.80
West South Central	1.02	1.06	0.57	0.65	0.43	0.45
West	0.82	0.85	0.46	0.47	0.31	0.31
Mountain	1.22	1.43	0.74	0.71	0.56	0.40
Pacific	1.04	1.04	0.57	0.59	0.38	0.41
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.54	0.56	0.30	0.33	0.22	0.23
Small Metro	0.66	0.68	0.38	0.36	0.28	0.26
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.75	0.79	0.46	0.46	0.33	0.35
< 250K Pop.	1.25	1.27	0.64	0.60	0.51	0.40
Nonmetro	0.78	0.82	0.43	0.48	0.33	0.34
Urbanized	1.20	1.21	0.68	0.76	0.47	0.56
Less Urbanized	1.24	1.08	0.57	0.69	0.47	0.48
Completely Rural	2.74	3.42	1.17	1.33	0.93	1.15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.92P Cigar Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.9831		0.2591		0.8356
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.8250		0.3946		0.5159
New England	0.7242		0.9182		0.4767
Middle Atlantic	0.6298		0.3077		0.2457
Midwest	0.3938		0.8872		0.6860
East North Central	0.7123		0.9737		0.7356
West North Central	0.3386		0.7648		0.8227
South	0.7763		0.2876		0.9339
South Atlantic	0.9030		0.7192		0.4348
East South Central	0.9045		0.1396		0.6503
West South Central	0.7694		0.7293		0.5079
West	0.4113		0.9262		0.6303
Mountain	0.6372		0.2894		0.1363
Pacific	0.4844		0.5186		0.8245
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.6430		0.5252		0.4628
Small Metro	0.8722		0.8375		0.7660
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2311		0.2564		0.0518
< 250K Pop.	0.2500		0.1987		0.0196
Nonmetro	0.3706		0.1517		0.5396
Urbanized	0.6664		0.3194		0.9602
Less Urbanized	0.3153		0.4294		0.6181
Completely Rural	0.7905		0.1552		0.2784
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.93C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	705	649	885	917	957	975
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	285	259	379	380	416	432
New England	146	116	147	179	176	197
Middle Atlantic	246	231	349	335	375	386
Midwest	201	210	329	343	362	377
East North Central	166	168	283	286	293	294
West North Central	114	128	168	187	212	226
South	475	426	593	579	623	592
South Atlantic	385	330	456	449	492	470
East South Central	162	159	188	218	189	223
West South Central	223	215	325	286	325	285
West	386	370	424	460	476	505
Mountain	152	141	197	198	214	222
Pacific	355	340	375	414	425	456
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,737	1,586	1,491	1,414	1,280	1,239
Small Metro	1,335	1,139	1,079	968	922	818
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	1,069	927	888	806	756	681
< 250K Pop.	838	708	653	556	545	466
Nonmetro	802	915	634	689	540	566
Urbanized	547	590	430	458	366	396
Less Urbanized	641	683	508	506	410	394
Completely Rural	339	426	269	323	242	270
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.93D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.29	0.27	0.37	0.38	0.40	0.40
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.63	0.57	0.83	0.83	0.91	0.95
New England	1.23	0.97	1.23	1.50	1.47	1.64
Middle Atlantic	0.73	0.69	1.04	1.00	1.12	1.15
Midwest	0.37	0.38	0.61	0.63	0.67	0.69
East North Central	0.44	0.44	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.77
West North Central	0.70	0.78	1.03	1.14	1.31	1.37
South	0.55	0.49	0.69	0.66	0.72	0.68
South Atlantic	0.85	0.72	1.01	0.97	1.09	1.02
East South Central	1.12	1.10	1.30	1.50	1.31	1.54
West South Central	0.84	0.80	1.22	1.06	1.23	1.06
West	0.71	0.67	0.78	0.83	0.87	0.91
Mountain	0.95	0.86	1.23	1.21	1.34	1.35
Pacific	0.92	0.87	0.97	1.06	1.10	1.17
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.41	0.38	0.51	0.53	0.54	0.58
Small Metro	0.51	0.47	0.68	0.67	0.74	0.69
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.60	0.58	0.78	0.79	0.84	0.78
< 250K Pop.	0.88	0.81	1.23	1.19	1.31	1.30
Nonmetro	0.78	0.63	0.92	0.82	0.92	0.84
Urbanized	0.90	1.00	1.33	1.38	1.38	1.45
Less Urbanized	1.23	0.86	1.33	1.10	1.26	1.14
Completely Rural	2.09	2.16	2.85	3.38	3.35	3.28
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.93P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.2069		0.0133		0.0067
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.6428		0.7760		0.7078
New England	0.3480		0.6424		0.2340
Middle Atlantic	0.2939		0.5895		0.8665
Midwest	0.3109		0.3590		0.1790
East North Central	0.9518		0.8329		0.3352
West North Central	0.1018		0.1625		0.3286
South	0.2344		0.0427		0.0071
South Atlantic	0.3236		0.0553		0.0071
East South Central	0.6903		0.9173		0.2954
West South Central	0.5970		0.3367		0.6945
West	0.9881		0.1324		0.1654
Mountain	0.3688		0.0516		0.0295
Pacific	0.7107		0.4778		0.6394
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.3965		0.0146		0.0346
Small Metro	0.6057		0.1230		0.0845
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2144		0.0494		0.0063
< 250K Pop.	0.4148		0.9805		0.5520
Nonmetro	0.4087		0.5688		0.6739
Urbanized	0.7903		0.5576		0.5017
Less Urbanized	0.3714		0.7102		0.3468
Completely Rural	0.7546		0.1281		0.1521
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.94C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	108	111	103	105	81	81
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	54	46	49	43	36	36
New England	22	22	21	20	21	17
Middle Atlantic	49	40	45	38	30	32
Midwest	41	44	42	43	34	33
East North Central	32	35	33	35	24	26
West North Central	26	26	27	24	24	20
South	62	71	62	66	46	49
South Atlantic	45	52	43	48	32	37
East South Central	25	25	24	24	19	17
West South Central	34	38	38	37	28	27
West	57	63	51	58	44	44
Mountain	26	25	24	23	18	18
Pacific	51	57	45	54	40	41
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	132	132	118	118	76	72
Small Metro	98	86	84	75	55	48
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	83	71	69	64	45	41
< 250K Pop.	60	51	55	42	37	27
Nonmetro	78	74	67	64	42	42
Urbanized	45	45	38	37	22	23
Less Urbanized	64	58	55	49	36	33
Completely Rural	24	26	19	24	14	19
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.94D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.43	0.44	0.41	0.41	0.32	0.32
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.18	1.02	1.09	0.95	0.80	0.79
New England	1.90	1.89	1.79	1.74	1.76	1.43
Middle Atlantic	1.46	1.20	1.33	1.13	0.88	0.95
Midwest	0.73	0.78	0.74	0.75	0.60	0.58
East North Central	0.81	0.87	0.81	0.86	0.60	0.64
West North Central	1.55	1.55	1.59	1.48	1.44	1.22
South	0.69	0.78	0.69	0.73	0.52	0.54
South Atlantic	0.99	1.12	0.93	1.03	0.70	0.80
East South Central	1.75	1.74	1.67	1.68	1.28	1.17
West South Central	1.16	1.28	1.29	1.23	0.94	0.90
West	0.95	1.03	0.85	0.96	0.73	0.73
Mountain	1.50	1.44	1.37	1.32	1.03	1.01
Pacific	1.19	1.33	1.06	1.25	0.94	0.94
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.65	0.65	0.63	0.61	0.49	0.46
Small Metro	0.77	0.72	0.73	0.68	0.57	0.53
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.89	0.87	0.85	0.85	0.69	0.66
< 250K Pop.	1.38	1.28	1.30	1.16	1.03	0.88
Nonmetro	1.16	1.09	1.11	1.02	0.79	0.78
Urbanized	1.56	1.82	1.55	1.66	1.07	1.18
Less Urbanized	1.76	1.40	1.59	1.31	1.20	1.06
Completely Rural	3.91	3.35	3.43	3.14	2.64	2.98
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.94P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0250		0.3763		0.0190
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.1139		0.2628		0.4989
New England	0.0082		0.0404		0.1629
Middle Atlantic	0.6514		0.8190		0.9515
Midwest	0.0951		0.4415		0.3216
East North Central	0.0515		0.3491		0.1839
West North Central	0.8161		0.9670		0.9882
South	0.6441		0.2047		0.7442
South Atlantic	0.5659		0.8560		0.6708
East South Central	0.6774		0.5916		0.4958
West South Central	0.0551		0.1096		0.1201
West	0.0376		0.1117		0.0009
Mountain	0.4956		0.7351		0.1834
Pacific	0.0486		0.1119		0.0023
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.3511		0.6930		0.2216
Small Metro	0.0255		0.3675		0.0132
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0364		0.8035		0.2543
< 250K Pop.	0.3340		0.2214		0.0065
Nonmetro	0.4714		0.8209		0.8802
Urbanized	0.6679		0.9674		0.4722
Less Urbanized	0.7070		0.9342		0.8945
Completely Rural	0.5575		0.5134		0.1691
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.95C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	117	114	142	139	164	166
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	43	44	54	55	64	71
New England	21	21	27	24	33	37
Middle Atlantic	37	38	46	48	53	58
Midwest	40	43	49	50	63	66
East North Central	34	35	41	41	48	55
West North Central	20	24	27	28	40	35
South	71	68	87	82	96	98
South Atlantic	42	51	62	59	71	73
East South Central	32	26	35	34	40	35
West South Central	46	35	49	46	51	54
West	71	67	82	80	93	91
Mountain	31	35	33	39	38	44
Pacific	64	57	75	69	85	79
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	283	295	259	281	219	247
Small Metro	276	231	257	220	215	197
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	231	193	216	183	182	170
< 250K Pop.	170	140	157	131	130	108
Nonmetro	146	140	138	132	117	105
Urbanized	121	101	115	99	101	78
Less Urbanized	104	98	97	90	75	72
Completely Rural	39	45	33	39	25	25
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.95D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.36	0.35	0.44	0.43	0.51	0.51
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.75	0.77	0.95	0.97	1.12	1.24
New England	1.39	1.42	1.81	1.60	2.21	2.50
Middle Atlantic	0.88	0.90	1.09	1.15	1.26	1.37
Midwest	0.53	0.58	0.66	0.68	0.85	0.88
East North Central	0.67	0.69	0.79	0.81	0.94	1.07
West North Central	0.87	1.03	1.17	1.21	1.74	1.52
South	0.61	0.58	0.75	0.70	0.83	0.84
South Atlantic	0.74	0.87	1.08	1.00	1.25	1.26
East South Central	1.65	1.35	1.80	1.75	2.03	1.82
West South Central	1.17	0.89	1.27	1.17	1.30	1.38
West	0.95	0.88	1.09	1.05	1.23	1.20
Mountain	1.34	1.49	1.46	1.67	1.64	1.86
Pacific	1.23	1.09	1.43	1.30	1.61	1.51
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.56	0.51	0.65	0.63	0.73	0.74
Small Metro	0.57	0.59	0.74	0.71	0.88	0.91
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.75	0.77	0.96	0.91	1.06	1.17
< 250K Pop.	0.96	0.88	1.19	1.13	1.56	1.41
Nonmetro	0.75	0.74	1.00	0.85	1.18	1.00
Urbanized	1.04	1.08	1.42	1.27	1.78	1.65
Less Urbanized	1.19	1.12	1.49	1.22	1.68	1.31
Completely Rural	2.10	2.26	2.76	3.04	3.14	2.82
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.95P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.3085		0.7943		0.5735
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.2951		0.2949		0.7850
New England	0.3699		0.5951		0.7342
Middle Atlantic	0.4772		0.3538		0.9079
Midwest	0.1223		0.3949		0.5660
East North Central	0.2995		0.7853		0.8992
West North Central	0.2037		0.2586		0.4272
South	0.9923		0.8662		0.6414
South Atlantic	0.7186		0.9721		0.5638
East South Central	0.3651		0.3368		0.0788
West South Central	0.3018		0.7402		0.2397
West	0.9470		0.3125		0.1737
Mountain	0.8911		0.7168		0.6421
Pacific	1.0000		0.3391		0.1965
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.7533		0.6405		0.0531
Small Metro	0.3492		0.3898		0.3888
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.6775		0.5478		0.5756
< 250K Pop.	0.3068		0.5438		0.4807
Nonmetro	0.4393		0.6747		0.2232
Urbanized	0.3446		0.9697		0.2323
Less Urbanized	0.8358		0.9761		0.7495
Completely Rural	0.9822		0.4315		0.1417
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

60411

**Table 2.96C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	670	617	863	889	933	936
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	260	251	365	371	405	421
New England	135	104	133	172	152	192
Middle Atlantic	222	227	339	328	372	376
Midwest	198	198	342	334	367	370
East North Central	156	159	290	277	292	285
West North Central	122	119	181	181	220	224
South	451	417	563	576	597	586
South Atlantic	363	325	432	449	473	465
East South Central	160	150	184	213	184	218
West South Central	213	204	307	274	306	275
West	370	334	416	422	462	462
Mountain	153	123	188	181	204	209
Pacific	337	307	371	379	415	415
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,594	1,505	1,365	1,341	1,194	1,185
Small Metro	1,192	1,050	955	885	836	760
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	952	854	785	743	682	639
< 250K Pop.	717	644	544	495	472	423
Nonmetro	746	832	583	623	507	528
Urbanized	491	536	381	415	332	367
Less Urbanized	562	610	438	443	362	354
Completely Rural	302	395	240	300	220	260
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.96D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.37	0.33	0.47	0.48	0.51	0.51
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.74	0.71	1.04	1.05	1.15	1.19
New England	1.45	1.12	1.43	1.85	1.63	2.07
Middle Atlantic	0.86	0.87	1.30	1.26	1.43	1.44
Midwest	0.48	0.48	0.83	0.81	0.89	0.89
East North Central	0.54	0.55	1.01	0.96	1.01	0.98
West North Central	0.99	0.96	1.47	1.46	1.79	1.80
South	0.69	0.62	0.86	0.86	0.91	0.88
South Atlantic	1.04	0.91	1.24	1.26	1.35	1.30
East South Central	1.45	1.35	1.68	1.92	1.67	1.96
West South Central	1.08	1.02	1.56	1.37	1.55	1.37
West	0.90	0.80	1.01	1.01	1.12	1.11
Mountain	1.28	0.99	1.57	1.47	1.71	1.70
Pacific	1.15	1.04	1.27	1.29	1.42	1.41
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.50	0.47	0.64	0.67	0.69	0.73
Small Metro	0.62	0.60	0.87	0.86	0.92	0.88
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.77	0.74	0.99	1.02	1.06	1.00
< 250K Pop.	1.01	1.04	1.53	1.51	1.64	1.63
Nonmetro	0.93	0.77	1.13	1.03	1.15	1.05
Urbanized	1.11	1.19	1.67	1.73	1.71	1.80
Less Urbanized	1.49	1.07	1.62	1.37	1.53	1.44
Completely Rural	2.34	2.76	3.48	4.24	4.03	4.07
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.96P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0692		0.0079		0.0041
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.3283		0.5577		0.7757
New England	0.7003		0.8942		0.2867
Middle Atlantic	0.1874		0.4776		0.8571
Midwest	0.0988		0.2694		0.1910
East North Central	0.4972		0.7206		0.2870
West North Central	0.0689		0.1329		0.4296
South	0.2704		0.0524		0.0054
South Atlantic	0.2608		0.0545		0.0042
East South Central	0.5333		0.8355		0.1452
West South Central	0.9712		0.4670		0.9769
West	0.7072		0.1097		0.1296
Mountain	0.3044		0.0445		0.0230
Pacific	0.9676		0.4259		0.5760
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.2436		0.0126		0.0501
Small Metro	0.3563		0.0705		0.0318
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.1018		0.0299		0.0021
< 250K Pop.	0.4480		0.8470		0.7226
Nonmetro	0.2643		0.6095		0.5225
Urbanized	0.5693		0.5296		0.3764
Less Urbanized	0.3141		0.6912		0.3558
Completely Rural	0.6762		0.1508		0.2197
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.97C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	685	625	880	908	950	969
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	272	256	379	377	417	427
New England	139	108	144	175	169	194
Middle Atlantic	234	231	350	334	378	382
Midwest	200	203	342	339	372	379
East North Central	156	163	291	281	298	293
West North Central	126	122	180	185	222	229
South	459	416	580	578	615	594
South Atlantic	370	319	446	450	487	471
East South Central	160	157	184	217	191	221
West South Central	217	207	316	280	314	284
West	380	345	421	439	465	487
Mountain	158	126	197	186	214	213
Pacific	346	317	372	396	413	440
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,693	1,554	1,449	1,381	1,260	1,225
Small Metro	1,288	1,109	1,046	942	910	807
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	1,030	902	863	785	748	672
< 250K Pop.	803	685	622	537	528	458
Nonmetro	772	880	609	662	529	555
Urbanized	525	566	414	441	359	388
Less Urbanized	606	651	475	479	393	380
Completely Rural	324	414	257	314	234	266
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.97D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.32	0.29	0.41	0.42	0.44	0.44
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.66	0.62	0.93	0.92	1.02	1.04
New England	1.29	1.00	1.33	1.62	1.57	1.80
Middle Atlantic	0.77	0.76	1.16	1.10	1.25	1.26
Midwest	0.41	0.42	0.71	0.69	0.77	0.78
East North Central	0.46	0.48	0.86	0.82	0.88	0.86
West North Central	0.86	0.83	1.24	1.25	1.52	1.55
South	0.60	0.53	0.75	0.74	0.80	0.76
South Atlantic	0.91	0.77	1.10	1.08	1.20	1.14
East South Central	1.24	1.20	1.42	1.66	1.48	1.69
West South Central	0.92	0.87	1.34	1.17	1.33	1.18
West	0.78	0.70	0.87	0.89	0.96	0.99
Mountain	1.11	0.86	1.38	1.27	1.50	1.45
Pacific	1.00	0.91	1.08	1.14	1.20	1.27
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.44	0.41	0.56	0.58	0.59	0.65
Small Metro	0.54	0.51	0.75	0.74	0.81	0.77
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.66	0.63	0.86	0.88	0.93	0.87
< 250K Pop.	0.89	0.88	1.33	1.31	1.43	1.44
Nonmetro	0.82	0.68	1.00	0.90	1.02	0.93
Urbanized	0.94	1.05	1.46	1.50	1.52	1.59
Less Urbanized	1.33	0.94	1.46	1.21	1.39	1.26
Completely Rural	2.16	2.46	3.11	3.80	3.67	3.63
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.97P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.1082		0.0106		0.0039
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.4388		0.6742		0.7480
New England	0.6004		0.8329		0.2816
Middle Atlantic	0.2456		0.5722		0.8721
Midwest	0.1912		0.3358		0.1698
East North Central	0.6551		0.7583		0.2914
West North Central	0.1221		0.1896		0.3657
South	0.2754		0.0604		0.0082
South Atlantic	0.2837		0.0579		0.0067
East South Central	0.6584		0.9787		0.2743
West South Central	0.8708		0.4501		0.8181
West	0.7238		0.0811		0.0826
Mountain	0.3326		0.0453		0.0219
Pacific	0.9693		0.3397		0.4281
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.2833		0.0112		0.0238
Small Metro	0.4588		0.1176		0.0637
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.1226		0.0490		0.0049
< 250K Pop.	0.3620		0.9579		0.6248
Nonmetro	0.3205		0.5826		0.6594
Urbanized	0.6869		0.5430		0.5222
Less Urbanized	0.3365		0.7039		0.3400
Completely Rural	0.6693		0.1447		0.1838
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.98C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	957	975	698	701	382	379
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	416	432	332	298	175	173
New England	176	197	168	149	93	98
Middle Atlantic	375	386	288	260	149	142
Midwest	362	377	301	300	192	184
East North Central	293	294	260	231	168	138
West North Central	212	226	152	187	92	119
South	623	592	423	416	222	211
South Atlantic	492	470	315	314	145	143
East South Central	189	223	136	168	77	80
West South Central	325	285	247	225	148	140
West	476	505	327	361	169	192
Mountain	214	222	132	171	69	78
Pacific	425	456	299	317	154	174
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,280	1,239	648	637	287	294
Small Metro	922	818	496	463	261	227
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	756	681	379	359	201	189
< 250K Pop.	545	466	324	291	162	126
Nonmetro	540	566	334	306	152	149
Urbanized	366	396	223	213	94	85
Less Urbanized	410	394	243	218	116	116
Completely Rural	242	270	109	118	55	56
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.98D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.40	0.40	0.29	0.29	0.16	0.16
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.91	0.95	0.73	0.65	0.39	0.38
New England	1.47	1.64	1.40	1.24	0.78	0.82
Middle Atlantic	1.12	1.15	0.86	0.77	0.44	0.42
Midwest	0.67	0.69	0.55	0.55	0.35	0.34
East North Central	0.77	0.77	0.69	0.61	0.44	0.36
West North Central	1.31	1.37	0.93	1.14	0.57	0.72
South	0.72	0.68	0.49	0.47	0.26	0.24
South Atlantic	1.09	1.02	0.70	0.68	0.32	0.31
East South Central	1.31	1.54	0.94	1.15	0.53	0.55
West South Central	1.23	1.06	0.93	0.84	0.56	0.52
West	0.87	0.91	0.60	0.65	0.31	0.35
Mountain	1.34	1.35	0.82	1.04	0.43	0.48
Pacific	1.10	1.17	0.77	0.81	0.40	0.45
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.54	0.58	0.40	0.42	0.21	0.22
Small Metro	0.74	0.69	0.56	0.51	0.34	0.29
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.84	0.78	0.65	0.62	0.40	0.37
< 250K Pop.	1.31	1.30	1.01	0.91	0.59	0.48
Nonmetro	0.92	0.84	0.67	0.58	0.34	0.34
Urbanized	1.38	1.45	1.04	1.03	0.50	0.49
Less Urbanized	1.26	1.14	0.93	0.78	0.49	0.53
Completely Rural	3.35	3.28	1.88	1.62	1.44	0.97
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.98P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0067		0.8010		0.1202
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.7078		0.1526		0.8884
New England	0.2340		0.1243		0.9777
Middle Atlantic	0.8665		0.4484		0.8803
Midwest	0.1790		0.6335		0.2067
East North Central	0.3352		0.4870		0.0580
West North Central	0.3286		0.8735		0.6093
South	0.0071		0.7502		0.0716
South Atlantic	0.0071		0.6904		0.0152
East South Central	0.2954		0.1088		0.6243
West South Central	0.6945		0.9537		1.0000
West	0.1654		0.3812		0.9254
Mountain	0.0295		0.7464		0.9260
Pacific	0.6394		0.4203		0.9549
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0346		0.3317		0.3217
Small Metro	0.0845		0.3448		0.3024
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0063		0.4333		0.8385
< 250K Pop.	0.5520		0.5797		0.1320
Nonmetro	0.6739		0.9516		0.6039
Urbanized	0.5017		0.9113		0.5753
Less Urbanized	0.3468		0.4284		0.5964
Completely Rural	0.1521		0.1289		0.1227
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.99C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	81	81	73	65	36	32
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	36	36	28	28	16	15
New England	21	17	13	12	8	5
Middle Atlantic	30	32	25	25	15	14
Midwest	34	33	29	26	13	15
East North Central	24	26	21	21	10	9
West North Central	24	20	21	15	8	11
South	46	49	38	37	21	20
South Atlantic	32	37	26	26	15	13
East South Central	19	17	15	13	6	6
West South Central	28	27	23	23	14	12
West	44	44	48	38	20	16
Mountain	18	18	19	16	8	10
Pacific	40	41	44	34	19	13
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	76	72	57	51	26	26
Small Metro	55	48	48	36	22	17
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	45	41	40	32	18	15
< 250K Pop.	37	27	26	19	13	9
Nonmetro	42	42	35	30	15	14
Urbanized	22	23	18	17	9	7
Less Urbanized	36	33	31	22	9	10
Completely Rural	14	19	11	15	6	7
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.99D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.32	0.32	0.29	0.26	0.14	0.13
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.80	0.79	0.63	0.61	0.36	0.33
New England	1.76	1.43	1.12	1.05	0.65	0.44
Middle Atlantic	0.88	0.95	0.74	0.74	0.43	0.41
Midwest	0.60	0.58	0.52	0.45	0.23	0.26
East North Central	0.60	0.64	0.52	0.52	0.25	0.23
West North Central	1.44	1.22	1.25	0.92	0.48	0.68
South	0.52	0.54	0.42	0.40	0.24	0.22
South Atlantic	0.70	0.80	0.57	0.56	0.33	0.29
East South Central	1.28	1.17	1.06	0.89	0.44	0.44
West South Central	0.94	0.90	0.78	0.76	0.46	0.42
West	0.73	0.73	0.80	0.62	0.34	0.27
Mountain	1.03	1.01	1.07	0.94	0.45	0.55
Pacific	0.94	0.94	1.04	0.79	0.44	0.30
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.49	0.46	0.41	0.35	0.19	0.18
Small Metro	0.57	0.53	0.54	0.46	0.29	0.23
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.69	0.66	0.67	0.59	0.35	0.28
< 250K Pop.	1.03	0.88	0.92	0.71	0.50	0.38
Nonmetro	0.79	0.78	0.70	0.61	0.33	0.31
Urbanized	1.07	1.18	0.94	0.94	0.53	0.46
Less Urbanized	1.20	1.06	1.11	0.84	0.42	0.42
Completely Rural	2.64	2.98	2.25	2.48	1.47	1.15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.99P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 17, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0190		0.0027		0.1856
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.4989		0.4849		0.4153
New England	0.1629		0.0307		0.0262
Middle Atlantic	0.9515		0.7465		0.8990
Midwest	0.3216		0.1394		0.7475
East North Central	0.1839		0.1287		0.0253
West North Central	0.9882		0.6275		0.0774
South	0.7442		0.7209		0.8302
South Atlantic	0.6708		0.2088		0.9780
East South Central	0.4958		0.2669		0.6877
West South Central	0.1201		0.1241		0.8701
West	0.0009		0.0019		0.2078
Mountain	0.1834		0.0955		0.1968
Pacific	0.0023		0.0078		0.0330
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.2216		0.1680		0.3653
Small Metro	0.0132		0.0380		0.4884
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2543		0.1234		0.9515
< 250K Pop.	0.0065		0.1447		0.1903
Nonmetro	0.8802		0.0423		0.5602
Urbanized	0.4722		0.8771		0.4843
Less Urbanized	0.8945		0.0297		0.8068
Completely Rural	0.1691		0.1399		0.8559
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.100C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	164	166	166	171	120	120
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	64	71	72	77	57	58
New England	33	37	41	46	36	37
Middle Atlantic	53	58	58	59	43	40
Midwest	63	66	71	73	55	50
East North Central	48	55	53	61	41	39
West North Central	40	35	46	39	36	31
South	96	98	97	95	70	66
South Atlantic	71	73	61	70	43	49
East South Central	40	35	44	32	31	24
West South Central	51	54	60	55	45	39
West	93	91	84	88	53	57
Mountain	38	44	30	43	26	28
Pacific	85	79	78	76	46	48
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	219	247	171	198	88	98
Small Metro	215	197	172	161	107	92
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	182	170	135	137	79	80
< 250K Pop.	130	108	108	85	71	43
Nonmetro	117	105	95	82	48	45
Urbanized	101	78	78	61	40	33
Less Urbanized	75	72	62	57	29	29
Completely Rural	25	25	17	21	11	13
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.100D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.51	0.51	0.52	0.53	0.37	0.37
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.12	1.24	1.27	1.35	1.01	1.01
New England	2.21	2.50	2.74	3.06	2.44	2.48
Middle Atlantic	1.26	1.37	1.39	1.40	1.03	0.95
Midwest	0.85	0.88	0.95	0.98	0.74	0.67
East North Central	0.94	1.07	1.04	1.20	0.80	0.77
West North Central	1.74	1.52	2.00	1.69	1.57	1.34
South	0.83	0.84	0.84	0.81	0.61	0.57
South Atlantic	1.25	1.26	1.07	1.21	0.76	0.84
East South Central	2.03	1.82	2.27	1.63	1.57	1.25
West South Central	1.30	1.38	1.54	1.39	1.16	1.00
West	1.23	1.20	1.12	1.16	0.70	0.74
Mountain	1.64	1.86	1.33	1.83	1.15	1.20
Pacific	1.61	1.51	1.50	1.45	0.87	0.91
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.73	0.74	0.71	0.75	0.47	0.48
Small Metro	0.88	0.91	0.91	0.94	0.76	0.72
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	1.06	1.17	1.10	1.18	0.88	0.93
< 250K Pop.	1.56	1.41	1.63	1.54	1.38	1.01
Nonmetro	1.18	1.00	1.09	0.98	0.79	0.76
Urbanized	1.78	1.65	1.65	1.63	1.27	1.24
Less Urbanized	1.68	1.31	1.57	1.40	1.03	1.06
Completely Rural	3.14	2.82	3.60	2.92	3.15	2.48
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.100P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 to 25, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.5735		0.3902		0.6611
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.7850		0.9293		0.5446
New England	0.7342		0.9918		0.6623
Middle Atlantic	0.9079		0.9159		0.2226
Midwest	0.5660		0.7271		0.8970
East North Central	0.8992		0.8338		0.8425
West North Central	0.4272		0.7654		0.9788
South	0.6414		0.9189		0.2978
South Atlantic	0.5638		0.5732		0.6569
East South Central	0.0788		0.7934		0.6786
West South Central	0.2397		0.3255		0.1450
West	0.1737		0.2069		0.6324
Mountain	0.6421		0.8840		0.7200
Pacific	0.1965		0.1854		0.4514
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0531		0.1008		0.2693
Small Metro	0.3888		0.8617		0.9369
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.5756		0.6188		0.4664
< 250K Pop.	0.4807		0.3395		0.2500
Nonmetro	0.2232		0.4962		0.5711
Urbanized	0.2323		0.1357		0.3020
Less Urbanized	0.7495		0.4744		0.5792
Completely Rural	0.1417		0.7816		0.8060
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.101C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	933	936	654	650	356	347
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	405	421	305	281	150	156
New England	152	192	140	136	68	83
Middle Atlantic	372	376	272	247	133	132
Midwest	367	370	282	275	189	173
East North Central	292	285	245	210	169	129
West North Central	220	224	139	171	85	112
South	597	586	394	395	206	191
South Atlantic	473	465	305	299	140	131
East South Central	184	218	118	162	69	74
West South Central	306	275	221	205	134	125
West	462	462	314	336	159	179
Mountain	204	209	121	160	58	66
Pacific	415	415	289	296	149	164
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,194	1,185	586	587	268	273
Small Metro	836	760	422	418	224	202
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	682	639	329	328	178	168
< 250K Pop.	472	423	264	256	135	112
Nonmetro	507	528	302	279	141	137
Urbanized	332	367	191	191	82	76
Less Urbanized	362	354	210	194	106	106
Completely Rural	220	260	98	105	52	49
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.101D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.51	0.51	0.36	0.35	0.19	0.19
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.15	1.19	0.87	0.80	0.42	0.44
New England	1.63	2.07	1.51	1.47	0.74	0.89
Middle Atlantic	1.43	1.44	1.05	0.95	0.51	0.51
Midwest	0.89	0.89	0.69	0.66	0.46	0.42
East North Central	1.01	0.98	0.85	0.73	0.59	0.45
West North Central	1.79	1.80	1.13	1.38	0.69	0.90
South	0.91	0.88	0.60	0.59	0.31	0.29
South Atlantic	1.35	1.30	0.87	0.84	0.40	0.37
East South Central	1.67	1.96	1.07	1.45	0.63	0.66
West South Central	1.55	1.37	1.12	1.02	0.68	0.62
West	1.12	1.11	0.76	0.81	0.39	0.43
Mountain	1.71	1.70	1.01	1.29	0.49	0.53
Pacific	1.42	1.41	0.99	1.01	0.51	0.56
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.69	0.73	0.50	0.52	0.26	0.27
Small Metro	0.92	0.88	0.68	0.64	0.41	0.35
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	1.06	1.00	0.80	0.78	0.49	0.44
< 250K Pop.	1.64	1.63	1.20	1.11	0.71	0.58
Nonmetro	1.15	1.05	0.80	0.72	0.41	0.41
Urbanized	1.71	1.80	1.25	1.28	0.60	0.60
Less Urbanized	1.53	1.44	1.09	0.98	0.59	0.64
Completely Rural	4.03	4.07	2.40	1.89	1.80	1.08
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.101P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 26 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0041		0.8626		0.0895
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.7757		0.1336		0.6412
New England	0.2867		0.1160		0.9918
Middle Atlantic	0.8571		0.3907		0.5949
Midwest	0.1910		0.6517		0.2151
East North Central	0.2870		0.5173		0.0832
West North Central	0.4296		0.8889		0.7176
South	0.0054		0.7340		0.0215
South Atlantic	0.0042		0.8442		0.0059
East South Central	0.1452		0.0544		0.7423
West South Central	0.9769		0.7095		0.6442
West	0.1296		0.3122		0.9307
Mountain	0.0230		0.6110		0.9354
Pacific	0.5760		0.3843		0.9503
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0501		0.1798		0.1764
Small Metro	0.0318		0.1666		0.3309
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0021		0.3362		0.6652
< 250K Pop.	0.7226		0.2959		0.2815
Nonmetro	0.5225		0.7565		0.7411
Urbanized	0.3764		0.8120		0.9027
Less Urbanized	0.3558		0.3479		0.6682
Completely Rural	0.2197		0.1412		0.1140
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.102C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	950	969	699	701	383	378
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	417	427	332	300	174	172
New England	169	194	170	151	90	98
Middle Atlantic	378	382	286	260	150	141
Midwest	372	379	304	301	193	183
East North Central	298	293	263	232	170	138
West North Central	222	229	155	188	92	118
South	615	594	423	417	222	213
South Atlantic	487	471	318	315	147	144
East South Central	191	221	130	169	77	79
West South Central	314	284	244	222	147	140
West	465	487	326	359	169	192
Mountain	214	213	133	173	67	79
Pacific	413	440	298	315	155	174
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,260	1,225	639	636	284	295
Small Metro	910	807	490	459	261	226
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	748	672	377	355	201	187
< 250K Pop.	528	458	314	288	161	125
Nonmetro	529	555	326	301	150	148
Urbanized	359	388	219	208	93	84
Less Urbanized	393	380	234	212	115	114
Completely Rural	234	266	103	114	54	54
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.102D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.44	0.44	0.32	0.32	0.18	0.17
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.02	1.04	0.81	0.73	0.43	0.42
New England	1.57	1.80	1.58	1.40	0.83	0.91
Middle Atlantic	1.25	1.26	0.95	0.86	0.50	0.46
Midwest	0.77	0.78	0.63	0.62	0.40	0.37
East North Central	0.88	0.86	0.77	0.68	0.50	0.40
West North Central	1.52	1.55	1.06	1.27	0.63	0.80
South	0.80	0.76	0.55	0.53	0.29	0.27
South Atlantic	1.20	1.14	0.78	0.76	0.36	0.35
East South Central	1.48	1.69	1.01	1.29	0.60	0.61
West South Central	1.33	1.18	1.04	0.92	0.62	0.59
West	0.96	0.99	0.67	0.73	0.35	0.39
Mountain	1.50	1.45	0.93	1.18	0.47	0.54
Pacific	1.20	1.27	0.86	0.91	0.45	0.50
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.59	0.65	0.45	0.47	0.24	0.24
Small Metro	0.81	0.77	0.63	0.58	0.38	0.32
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.93	0.87	0.73	0.70	0.45	0.41
< 250K Pop.	1.43	1.44	1.11	1.02	0.66	0.53
Nonmetro	1.02	0.93	0.74	0.64	0.37	0.38
Urbanized	1.52	1.59	1.16	1.14	0.56	0.55
Less Urbanized	1.39	1.26	1.02	0.87	0.55	0.59
Completely Rural	3.67	3.63	2.08	1.79	1.64	1.05
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.102P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 18 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0039		0.9785		0.1477
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.7480		0.1722		0.8304
New England	0.2816		0.1784		0.8546
Middle Atlantic	0.8721		0.4301		0.8905
Midwest	0.1698		0.7222		0.2120
East North Central	0.2914		0.5704		0.0802
West North Central	0.3657		0.8510		0.7363
South	0.0082		0.7413		0.0741
South Atlantic	0.0067		0.7623		0.0156
East South Central	0.2743		0.0854		0.6447
West South Central	0.8181		0.9129		0.9969
West	0.0826		0.2043		0.8249
Mountain	0.0219		0.6224		0.9410
Pacific	0.4281		0.2458		0.7864
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0238		0.4039		0.3653
Small Metro	0.0637		0.2714		0.3180
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0049		0.3565		0.8241
< 250K Pop.	0.6248		0.5293		0.1537
Nonmetro	0.6594		0.8691		0.6435
Urbanized	0.5222		0.9071		0.6294
Less Urbanized	0.3400		0.2891		0.5838
Completely Rural	0.1838		0.1853		0.1294
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.103C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Demographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	272	286	246	268	191	208
GENDER
Male	177	184	162	171	130	137
Female	170	180	155	171	119	128
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	243	261	220	243	171	189
White	210	232	195	219	154	175
Black or African American	100	106	83	86	56	58
American Indian or Alaska Native	15	15	12	14	7	8
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	4
Asian	49	52	44	47	27	29
Two or More Races	29	23	26	22	17	15
Hispanic or Latino	112	123	96	109	76	79
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	136	148	126	140	104	115
Female, White, Not Hispanic	133	141	124	134	94	106
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	66	65	56	54	38	40
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	59	65	52	55	36	36
Male, Hispanic	77	87	69	76	54	59
Female, Hispanic	74	77	62	72	51	51
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.103D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Demographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.43	0.39	0.41
GENDER
Male	0.56	0.55	0.56	0.56	0.55	0.53
Female	0.55	0.56	0.55	0.58	0.51	0.54
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.43	0.44	0.44	0.45	0.43	0.44
White	0.49	0.50	0.52	0.53	0.50	0.52
Black or African American	1.06	1.02	0.98	0.96	0.81	0.83
American Indian or Alaska Native	4.44	3.72	3.81	3.53	2.92	2.85
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	3.54
Asian	2.15	2.40	2.01	2.29	1.57	1.59
Two or More Races	2.59	2.79	2.75	2.81	2.28	2.24
Hispanic or Latino	1.02	1.06	0.98	1.06	0.97	0.97
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.68	0.67	0.68	0.71	0.68	0.69
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.67	0.64	0.70	0.67	0.65	0.68
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	1.50	1.43	1.38	1.34	1.10	1.21
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	1.33	1.38	1.28	1.35	1.10	1.03
Male, Hispanic	1.52	1.52	1.48	1.48	1.41	1.37
Female, Hispanic	1.44	1.51	1.40	1.59	1.35	1.33
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.103P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Demographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Demographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.1074		0.6221		0.3878
GENDER
Male	0.1109		0.4361		0.3830
Female	0.4328		0.9557		0.6856
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.1165		0.4518		0.4811
White	0.0624		0.4507		0.6753
Black or African American	0.5003		0.7987		0.9587
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.8276		0.4508		0.5191
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		*
Asian	0.6554		0.6550		0.6782
Two or More Races	0.3665		0.9440		0.4685
Hispanic or Latino	0.6058		0.6435		0.6175
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.2795		0.4471		0.3338
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.0816		0.7037		0.6946
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	0.9642		0.9513		0.9700
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	0.2663		0.7401		0.9324
Male, Hispanic	0.6672		0.5430		0.6176
Female, Hispanic	0.7812		0.9911		0.1909
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.104C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Demographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	1,988	1,904	1,688	1,662	1,513	1,452
GENDER
Male	1,279	1,263	1,116	1,109	1,008	1,006
Female	1,188	1,196	1,011	1,025	913	856
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	1,891	1,820	1,612	1,590	1,439	1,399
White	1,666	1,666	1,440	1,456	1,304	1,291
Black or African American	643	654	491	520	414	451
American Indian or Alaska Native	138	*	*	82	58	68
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian	389	358	355	325	289	276
Two or More Races	172	154	158	133	126	111
Hispanic or Latino	648	658	564	569	424	448
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	1,025	1,067	909	949	832	877
Female, White, Not Hispanic	1,047	1,063	917	922	841	780
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	385	449	306	352	277	323
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	421	403	310	325	246	260
Male, Hispanic	469	493	410	427	320	362
Female, Hispanic	345	368	299	317	239	223
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.104D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Demographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.33	0.30	0.43	0.44	0.46	0.47
GENDER
Male	0.42	0.32	0.57	0.57	0.63	0.62
Female	0.47	0.47	0.60	0.58	0.62	0.59
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.35	0.32	0.47	0.47	0.50	0.50
White	0.33	0.30	0.50	0.48	0.54	0.53
Black or African American	1.13	1.12	1.24	1.44	1.34	1.41
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.13	*	*	5.17	5.89	5.15
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	*	*
Asian	3.05	2.42	3.18	2.60	2.73	2.45
Two or More Races	1.54	2.76	2.94	3.74	3.32	3.70
Hispanic or Latino	1.14	1.01	1.29	1.23	1.15	1.28
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.42	0.30	0.64	0.61	0.71	0.67
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.49	0.48	0.68	0.66	0.74	0.70
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	1.66	1.23	1.90	2.27	1.94	2.26
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	1.53	1.63	1.74	1.73	1.64	1.56
Male, Hispanic	1.29	1.10	1.78	1.66	1.70	1.78
Female, Hispanic	1.59	1.54	1.66	1.72	1.60	1.55
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.104P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Demographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Demographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0785		0.0086		0.0034
GENDER
Male	0.1605		0.4337		0.0881
Female	0.2106		0.0026		0.0074
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.3398		0.0867		0.0110
White	0.2736		0.2083		0.0437
Black or African American	0.1819		0.0307		0.0198
American Indian or Alaska Native	*		*		0.2749
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		*
Asian	0.4372		0.9346		0.7669
Two or More Races	0.0732		0.0496		0.2022
Hispanic or Latino	0.0237		0.0033		0.0639
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.3381		0.9307		0.4453
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.4845		0.0668		0.0296
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	0.2135		0.4016		0.1292
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	0.4538		0.0314		0.0523
Male, Hispanic	0.0490		0.0171		0.0409
Female, Hispanic	0.1123		0.0523		0.5794
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.105C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005
Demographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	191	208	160	170	98	86
GENDER
Male	130	137	115	123	70	67
Female	119	128	93	92	50	44
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	171	189	143	152	91	78
White	154	175	130	142	82	76
Black or African American	56	58	37	37	17	15
American Indian or Alaska Native	7	8	5	8	4	5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	4	*	3	1	1
Asian	27	29	22	18	9	5
Two or More Races	17	15	14	13	10	9
Hispanic or Latino	76	79	64	66	32	32
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	104	115	93	101	58	58
Female, White, Not Hispanic	94	106	76	80	45	40
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	38	40	29	30	16	13
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	36	36	21	20	5	8
Male, Hispanic	54	59	48	53	27	27
Female, Hispanic	51	51	40	37	18	16
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.105D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Demographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.39	0.41	0.36	0.37	0.24	0.21
GENDER
Male	0.55	0.53	0.52	0.51	0.34	0.32
Female	0.51	0.54	0.44	0.43	0.26	0.22
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.43	0.44	0.39	0.40	0.27	0.23
White	0.50	0.52	0.47	0.47	0.33	0.29
Black or African American	0.81	0.83	0.58	0.60	0.30	0.26
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.92	2.85	2.31	2.60	1.75	1.68
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	3.54	*	2.65	0.65	0.90
Asian	1.57	1.59	1.35	1.06	0.60	0.34
Two or More Races	2.28	2.24	2.00	2.06	1.49	1.46
Hispanic or Latino	0.97	0.97	0.88	0.86	0.49	0.46
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.68	0.69	0.64	0.65	0.45	0.43
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.65	0.68	0.58	0.57	0.37	0.32
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	1.10	1.21	0.94	0.99	0.55	0.45
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	1.10	1.03	0.71	0.65	0.16	0.27
Male, Hispanic	1.41	1.37	1.30	1.31	0.78	0.76
Female, Hispanic	1.35	1.33	1.16	1.01	0.58	0.47
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.105P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Demographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Demographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.3878		0.1124		0.3447
GENDER
Male	0.3830		0.3121		0.2350
Female	0.6856		0.1486		0.9377
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.4811		0.2182		0.4745
White	0.6753		0.4017		0.5330
Black or African American	0.9587		0.3169		0.5400
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.5191		0.8129		0.5831
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		0.7930
Asian	0.6782		0.7296		0.5522
Two or More Races	0.4685		0.6298		0.6742
Hispanic or Latino	0.6175		0.2356		0.4777
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.3338		0.3094		0.3496
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.6946		0.8799		0.8659
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	0.9700		0.8472		0.2045
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	0.9324		0.1625		0.1297
Male, Hispanic	0.6176		0.7949		0.7448
Female, Hispanic	0.1909		0.0213		0.4098
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.106C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005
Demographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	1,513	1,452	787	795	384	379
GENDER
Male	1,008	1,006	632	629	329	330
Female	913	856	393	413	165	157
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	1,439	1,399	724	741	358	355
White	1,304	1,291	646	669	337	332
Black or African American	414	451	253	281	113	116
American Indian or Alaska Native	58	68	49	62	34	46
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	11	11
Asian	289	276	127	117	53	39
Two or More Races	126	111	58	61	28	24
Hispanic or Latino	424	448	286	293	125	133
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	832	877	513	525	286	290
Female, White, Not Hispanic	841	780	333	344	159	137
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	277	323	188	209	101	102
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	246	260	145	171	52	52
Male, Hispanic	320	362	253	255	113	125
Female, Hispanic	239	223	127	128	43	42
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.106D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Demographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Demographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.46	0.47	0.34	0.33	0.18	0.18
GENDER
Male	0.63	0.62	0.52	0.53	0.32	0.32
Female	0.62	0.59	0.36	0.37	0.16	0.15
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.50	0.50	0.36	0.35	0.20	0.19
White	0.54	0.53	0.41	0.38	0.23	0.22
Black or African American	1.34	1.41	1.01	1.06	0.48	0.49
American Indian or Alaska Native	5.89	5.15	4.93	4.86	3.13	4.05
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*	2.26	1.92
Asian	2.73	2.45	1.32	1.36	0.62	0.45
Two or More Races	3.32	3.70	2.98	2.80	1.43	1.18
Hispanic or Latino	1.15	1.28	0.97	1.00	0.48	0.52
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.71	0.67	0.63	0.59	0.40	0.38
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.74	0.70	0.43	0.42	0.22	0.18
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	1.94	2.26	1.63	1.80	0.95	0.99
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	1.64	1.56	1.11	1.17	0.41	0.41
Male, Hispanic	1.70	1.78	1.58	1.60	0.83	0.93
Female, Hispanic	1.60	1.55	1.04	0.99	0.35	0.34
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.106P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Demographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Demographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0034		0.9425		0.1654
GENDER
Male	0.0881		0.5139		0.5564
Female	0.0074		0.3562		0.0380
HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Not Hispanic or Latino	0.0110		0.9485		0.0811
White	0.0437		0.4497		0.1033
Black or African American	0.0198		0.0623		0.8234
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.2749		0.1967		0.3882
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		*		0.9078
Asian	0.7669		0.7681		0.3454
Two or More Races	0.2022		0.4301		0.2866
Hispanic or Latino	0.0639		1.0000		0.4434
GENDER/RACE/HISPANIC ORIGIN
Male, White, Not Hispanic	0.4453		0.3108		0.4852
Female, White, Not Hispanic	0.0296		0.9501		0.0202
Male, Black, Not Hispanic	0.1292		0.2991		0.6708
Female, Black, Not Hispanic	0.0523		0.0875		0.8149
Male, Hispanic	0.0409		0.7341		0.5236
Female, Hispanic	0.5794		0.5826		0.5879
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.107C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	216	197	190	182	146	141
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	196	178	174	164	136	127
White	166	156	151	147	121	117
Black or African American	80	73	65	60	41	40
American Indian or Alaska Native	18	11	16	9	12	5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	12	11	11	8	8	5
Chinese	17	18	13	17	8	9
Filipino	13	14	11	12	8	8
Japanese	*	*	*	*	3	*
Asian Indian	11	12	10	12	9	6
Korean	11	13	11	12	8	8
Vietnamese	17	12	15	9	9	6
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	90	83	71	73	48	55
Mexican	79	72	61	62	40	46
Puerto Rican	28	22	24	20	15	14
Central or South American	26	24	22	21	17	18
Cuban	12	12	11	11	9	8
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.107D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.31	0.29	0.32	0.30	0.31	0.28
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.34	0.31	0.35	0.31	0.34	0.31
White	0.37	0.35	0.37	0.37	0.37	0.36
Black or African American	0.77	0.74	0.72	0.69	0.58	0.58
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.01	2.89	3.01	2.59	2.84	2.03
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.71	5.30	5.26	5.20	4.38	3.92
Chinese	4.12	3.79	3.54	3.80	2.15	2.68
Filipino	3.00	4.23	2.99	3.90	2.23	2.79
Japanese	*	*	*	*	4.01	*
Asian Indian	3.30	3.05	3.12	3.02	2.86	1.77
Korean	4.76	4.82	4.82	4.74	4.23	3.98
Vietnamese	4.87	5.89	5.12	5.12	4.10	3.51
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.75	0.73	0.78	0.72	0.64	0.69
Mexican	0.92	0.91	0.95	0.90	0.76	0.85
Puerto Rican	2.13	2.06	2.23	2.07	1.77	1.76
Central or South American	2.30	2.07	2.32	2.25	2.19	2.12
Cuban	3.58	3.65	3.83	3.47	4.36	3.21
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.107P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003**
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.0002		0.2456		0.3104
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0006		0.2051		0.1485
White	0.0117		0.5039		0.2707
Black or African American	0.0381		0.4225		0.7255
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.0580		0.1158		0.0709
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.7790		0.4456		0.0587
Chinese	0.0740		0.0333		0.3008
Filipino	0.0528		0.2955		0.1245
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.2703		0.3922		0.1827
Korean	0.5741		0.9760		0.9529
Vietnamese	0.2617		0.1969		0.4034
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0855		0.9551		0.3449
Mexican	0.1314		0.6692		0.1539
Puerto Rican	0.0722		0.1731		0.1814
Central or South American	0.6428		0.8451		0.6153
Cuban	0.1723		0.4053		0.2883
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.108C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	1,553	1,376	1,333	1,184	1,156	1,048
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	1,492	1,312	1,286	1,132	1,107	1,003
White	1,344	1,178	1,171	1,024	1,029	918
Black or African American	469	458	387	357	311	306
American Indian or Alaska Native	75	85	63	56	59	45
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	41	43	40	35
Chinese	126	148	111	140	93	118
Filipino	156	125	125	111	108	90
Japanese	*	*	*	*	63	*
Asian Indian	118	101	107	86	89	67
Korean	*	*	*	46	54	41
Vietnamese	*	57	*	51	*	45
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	502	462	437	401	357	308
Mexican	382	357	331	313	266	238
Puerto Rican	144	147	124	135	96	101
Central or South American	159	177	149	143	121	116
Cuban	131	88	94	78	78	71
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.108D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.22	0.23	0.32	0.31	0.34	0.33
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.23	0.24	0.35	0.33	0.36	0.35
White	0.21	0.22	0.37	0.35	0.40	0.38
Black or African American	0.74	0.79	0.97	0.95	0.87	0.97
American Indian or Alaska Native	3.34	2.62	3.57	4.85	4.22	4.04
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	5.67	5.92	5.52	5.23
Chinese	3.02	4.20	4.00	4.38	3.78	4.21
Filipino	3.51	4.35	4.40	4.63	4.08	4.01
Japanese	*	*	*	*	6.03	*
Asian Indian	3.54	3.26	3.73	3.24	3.46	2.73
Korean	*	*	*	5.44	5.99	5.37
Vietnamese	*	5.78	*	5.96	*	5.53
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.75	0.76	1.02	0.89	0.99	0.86
Mexican	0.94	0.93	1.23	1.13	1.16	1.05
Puerto Rican	2.28	2.19	3.03	2.81	2.99	2.90
Central or South American	2.04	2.05	2.57	2.39	2.53	2.43
Cuban	2.58	2.61	3.48	3.89	3.82	3.46
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.108P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.3989		0.4233		0.1364
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.6265		0.2557		0.0432
White	0.4789		0.0535		0.0103
Black or African American	0.1655		0.7328		1.0000
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4283		0.2816		0.5321
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*		0.5339		0.6065
Chinese	0.3440		0.9905		0.9932
Filipino	0.6488		0.7259		0.6306
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.5440		0.0674		0.0215
Korean	*		*		0.7973
Vietnamese	*		*		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.5784		0.6374		0.3818
Mexican	0.5196		0.3391		0.1786
Puerto Rican	0.9291		0.8169		0.7361
Central or South American	0.4912		0.6697		0.3547
Cuban	0.4564		0.0706		0.1689
*Low precision; no estimate reported. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.109C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	146	141	119	117	57	65
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	136	127	109	104	55	60
White	121	117	100	96	53	56
Black or African American	41	40	27	26	10	11
American Indian or Alaska Native	12	5	7	5	2	3
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	8	5	7	4	2	1
Chinese	8	9	6	6	3	3
Filipino	8	8	6	5	2	2
Japanese	3	*	3	*	*	1
Asian Indian	9	6	5	6	2	2
Korean	8	8	5	6	*	2
Vietnamese	9	6	5	3	*	1
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	48	55	39	46	18	23
Mexican	40	46	32	39	16	19
Puerto Rican	15	14	12	12	5	6
Central or South American	17	18	14	16	5	6
Cuban	9	8	8	6	3	4
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.109D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.31	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.15	0.16
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.34	0.31	0.29	0.28	0.17	0.18
White	0.37	0.36	0.34	0.33	0.21	0.22
Black or African American	0.58	0.58	0.44	0.42	0.18	0.20
American Indian or Alaska Native	2.84	2.03	2.19	1.74	0.84	1.22
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4.38	3.92	4.04	3.30	1.50	0.56
Chinese	2.15	2.68	1.87	1.85	1.09	0.91
Filipino	2.23	2.79	2.00	1.94	0.88	0.77
Japanese	4.01	*	3.62	*	*	1.60
Asian Indian	2.86	1.77	1.78	1.53	0.76	0.43
Korean	4.23	3.98	3.23	2.95	*	0.82
Vietnamese	4.10	3.51	2.27	1.80	*	0.58
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.64	0.69	0.59	0.61	0.29	0.34
Mexican	0.76	0.85	0.69	0.75	0.37	0.40
Puerto Rican	1.77	1.76	1.48	1.57	0.70	0.81
Central or South American	2.19	2.12	1.89	1.99	0.67	0.89
Cuban	4.36	3.21	4.34	2.44	1.73	1.86
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.109P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.3104		0.9232		0.9537
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.1485		0.3522		0.8388
White	0.2707		0.6777		1.0000
Black or African American	0.7255		0.8913		0.6684
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.0709		0.2559		0.1739
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.0587		0.0593		0.1407
Chinese	0.3008		0.7186		0.7322
Filipino	0.1245		0.3810		0.9855
Japanese	*		*		*
Asian Indian	0.1827		0.6548		0.4263
Korean	0.9529		0.9407		*
Vietnamese	0.4034		0.5891		*
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.3449		0.0401		0.5379
Mexican	0.1539		0.0301		0.9414
Puerto Rican	0.1814		0.5631		0.9509
Central or South American	0.6153		0.4994		0.5296
Cuban	0.2883		0.0550		0.7409
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.110C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	1,156	1,048	591	559	289	270
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	1,107	1,003	561	518	263	252
White	1,029	918	488	465	241	236
Black or African American	311	306	201	189	91	81
American Indian or Alaska Native	59	45	33	40	20	29
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	40	35	22	29	9	8
Chinese	93	118	34	41	8	21
Filipino	108	90	39	46	14	15
Japanese	63	*	18	28	4	4
Asian Indian	89	67	43	38	15	12
Korean	54	41	31	27	*	11
Vietnamese	*	45	18	21	11	12
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	357	308	237	205	99	91
Mexican	266	238	189	165	75	74
Puerto Rican	96	101	71	71	37	33
Central or South American	121	116	81	65	24	30
Cuban	78	71	50	43	*	15
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.110D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: Standard Errors of Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2002-2003 and 2004-2005
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.34	0.33	0.25	0.24	0.14	0.13
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.36	0.35	0.27	0.25	0.14	0.14
White	0.40	0.38	0.29	0.28	0.16	0.16
Black or African American	0.87	0.97	0.73	0.73	0.40	0.34
American Indian or Alaska Native	4.22	4.04	2.69	3.58	1.72	2.58
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	5.52	5.23	3.91	4.68	1.94	1.47
Chinese	3.78	4.21	1.98	1.88	0.46	0.94
Filipino	4.08	4.01	2.12	2.72	0.78	0.98
Japanese	6.03	*	2.86	3.29	0.58	0.58
Asian Indian	3.46	2.73	2.14	1.73	0.84	0.54
Korean	5.99	5.37	4.16	4.19	*	1.92
Vietnamese	*	5.53	2.97	3.16	1.78	1.74
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.99	0.86	0.78	0.70	0.40	0.35
Mexican	1.16	1.05	0.99	0.88	0.48	0.46
Puerto Rican	2.99	2.90	2.43	2.36	1.45	1.25
Central or South American	2.53	2.43	1.92	1.65	0.69	0.82
Cuban	3.82	3.46	3.75	3.23	*	1.28
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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Table 2.110P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Racial/Ethnic Subgroups: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2004-2005 Versus 2002-2003
Racial/Ethnic Subgroup	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005	2002-2003	2004-2005
TOTAL¹	0.1364		0.8786		0.9877
NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.0432		0.7880		0.8487
White	0.0103		0.6709		0.5594
Black or African American	1.0000		0.4262		0.7268
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.5321		0.7494		0.9759
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.6065		0.6769		0.0516
Chinese	0.9932		0.3385		0.0750
Filipino	0.6306		0.3843		0.9792
Japanese	*		0.9780		0.3729
Asian Indian	0.0215		0.8325		0.5787
Korean	0.7973		0.3354		*
Vietnamese	*		0.2733		0.9750
HISPANIC OR LATINO¹	0.3818		0.2247		0.6568
Mexican	0.1786		0.2390		0.8513
Puerto Rican	0.7361		0.9524		0.5129
Central or South American	0.3547		0.2536		0.5701
Cuban	0.1689		0.9062		*
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. ¹ Totals include data from respondents reporting racial/ethnic subgroups not shown, as well as respondents reporting more than one subgroup. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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**Table 2.111C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	272	286	246	268	191	208
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	131	129	116	122	97	108
New England	55	85	57	83	56	78
Middle Atlantic	119	96	101	89	79	74
Midwest	126	120	118	115	99	91
East North Central	110	101	101	98	81	78
West North Central	62	69	62	65	56	51
South	146	188	133	176	91	127
South Atlantic	98	129	88	122	62	87
East South Central	48	60	48	54	35	36
West South Central	96	113	88	106	57	83
West	140	137	123	128	97	93
Mountain	67	63	58	57	39	45
Pacific	123	122	108	114	89	81
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	224	218	200	202	149	151
Small Metro	178	171	162	160	127	126
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	140	140	124	130	97	106
< 250K Pop.	124	105	115	97	89	72
Nonmetro	114	123	101	110	71	77
Urbanized	89	79	78	72	58	51
Less Urbanized	85	91	76	81	52	55
Completely Rural	34	38	29	34	20	23
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.111D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.43	0.39	0.41
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.04	0.99	1.04	1.04	1.00	1.15
New England	1.45	2.46	1.77	2.50	2.27	2.91
Middle Atlantic	1.32	1.03	1.25	1.08	1.08	1.14
Midwest	0.83	0.80	0.84	0.85	0.85	0.83
East North Central	0.99	0.93	0.98	1.03	0.95	1.00
West North Central	1.54	1.56	1.66	1.52	1.79	1.50
South	0.62	0.74	0.62	0.75	0.57	0.68
South Atlantic	0.90	1.06	0.85	1.06	0.79	0.95
East South Central	1.57	1.58	1.69	1.59	1.42	1.23
West South Central	1.02	1.27	1.08	1.34	1.00	1.31
West	0.88	0.95	0.86	0.95	0.83	0.86
Mountain	1.34	1.57	1.37	1.46	1.18	1.40
Pacific	1.11	1.18	1.07	1.20	1.06	1.06
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.63	0.58	0.62	0.60	0.57	0.57
Small Metro	0.72	0.76	0.76	0.80	0.76	0.79
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.86	0.97	0.91	0.98	0.93	1.00
< 250K Pop.	1.24	1.29	1.32	1.39	1.33	1.32
Nonmetro	1.01	0.93	1.03	0.91	0.85	0.81
Urbanized	1.47	1.63	1.47	1.66	1.46	1.42
Less Urbanized	1.53	1.20	1.48	1.18	1.19	1.05
Completely Rural	3.49	2.64	3.31	2.51	2.60	2.35
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.111P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.1074		0.6221		0.3878
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.1721		0.2133		0.5477
New England	0.0994		0.3841		0.7905
Middle Atlantic	0.5449		0.3511		0.5656
Midwest	0.1675		0.3743		0.7381
East North Central	0.3627		0.6441		0.7590
West North Central	0.2703		0.3765		0.9110
South	0.5043		0.2087		0.7832
South Atlantic	0.8968		0.4104		0.8705
East South Central	0.4526		0.9179		0.3083
West South Central	0.1227		0.2133		0.2274
West	0.1441		0.6113		0.2658
Mountain	0.9615		0.4847		0.8517
Pacific	0.1036		0.3503		0.1773
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.7988		0.6532		0.4566
Small Metro	0.0782		0.3334		0.0667
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.2575		0.8623		0.4678
< 250K Pop.	0.1663		0.1823		0.0362
Nonmetro	0.3478		0.5366		0.4701
Urbanized	0.5258		0.8948		0.9530
Less Urbanized	0.7165		0.8634		0.7935
Completely Rural	0.5990		0.3202		0.1135
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.112C Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	1,988	1,904	1,688	1,662	1,513	1,452
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	896	870	771	771	683	680
New England	425	395	364	367	346	327
Middle Atlantic	788	768	680	674	589	594
Midwest	722	761	616	634	529	559
East North Central	555	629	498	535	433	468
West North Central	462	421	364	344	303	305
South	1,253	1,169	1,040	990	929	882
South Atlantic	1,040	947	843	828	759	743
East South Central	441	433	320	332	246	305
West South Central	541	560	519	468	476	408
West	1,030	1,009	890	893	824	784
Mountain	419	456	385	416	365	381
Pacific	941	883	802	775	739	679
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,659	1,542	1,420	1,373	1,237	1,216
Small Metro	1,256	1,092	1,016	921	888	792
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	1,009	886	845	769	734	660
< 250K Pop.	767	675	587	524	503	449
Nonmetro	767	861	605	646	526	543
Urbanized	510	555	399	432	346	381
Less Urbanized	590	637	462	465	382	370
Completely Rural	317	406	253	308	231	264
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.112D Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.33	0.30	0.43	0.44	0.46	0.47
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.70	0.65	0.97	0.96	1.07	1.10
New England	1.37	1.04	1.40	1.71	1.60	1.90
Middle Atlantic	0.81	0.80	1.22	1.16	1.32	1.33
Midwest	0.44	0.43	0.75	0.73	0.81	0.82
East North Central	0.48	0.50	0.91	0.87	0.93	0.91
West North Central	0.91	0.87	1.30	1.32	1.61	1.64
South	0.62	0.56	0.79	0.78	0.84	0.80
South Atlantic	0.95	0.82	1.15	1.14	1.25	1.19
East South Central	1.29	1.24	1.49	1.76	1.55	1.79
West South Central	0.96	0.92	1.42	1.24	1.43	1.26
West	0.83	0.73	0.92	0.93	1.00	1.02
Mountain	1.16	0.90	1.46	1.32	1.59	1.52
Pacific	1.07	0.95	1.15	1.19	1.26	1.32
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.46	0.43	0.59	0.61	0.62	0.68
Small Metro	0.56	0.54	0.80	0.79	0.86	0.81
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.69	0.68	0.91	0.93	0.98	0.92
< 250K Pop.	0.93	0.93	1.42	1.38	1.53	1.51
Nonmetro	0.86	0.71	1.05	0.95	1.07	0.97
Urbanized	0.99	1.10	1.53	1.60	1.58	1.68
Less Urbanized	1.39	0.99	1.51	1.27	1.45	1.32
Completely Rural	2.21	2.57	3.20	3.98	3.79	3.78
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.112P Alcohol Use in Lifetime, Past Year, and Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004**
Geographic Characteristic	TIME PERIOD
	Lifetime		Past Year		Past Month
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0785		0.0086		0.0034
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.3662		0.5808		0.8071
New England	0.6464		0.8186		0.2580
Middle Atlantic	0.2018		0.4708		0.7879
Midwest	0.1086		0.2588		0.1542
East North Central	0.5720		0.7092		0.2720
West North Central	0.0612		0.1266		0.3485
South	0.2359		0.0574		0.0063
South Atlantic	0.2581		0.0590		0.0048
East South Central	0.5505		0.8966		0.2277
West South Central	0.8812		0.4518		0.8577
West	0.7920		0.1085		0.1147
Mountain	0.3577		0.0601		0.0280
Pacific	0.9111		0.3894		0.5134
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.2446		0.0114		0.0299
Small Metro	0.4273		0.0968		0.0466
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.1444		0.0488		0.0042
< 250K Pop.	0.4766		0.8348		0.7442
Nonmetro	0.2557		0.6475		0.5752
Urbanized	0.6173		0.5223		0.4843
Less Urbanized	0.3038		0.7303		0.3107
Completely Rural	0.5839		0.1724		0.2133
*Low precision; no estimate reported. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.113C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	191	208	160	170	98	86
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	97	108	80	86	56	49
New England	56	78	49	63	40	37
Middle Atlantic	79	74	63	58	39	32
Midwest	99	91	85	79	44	38
East North Central	81	78	65	70	31	33
West North Central	56	51	54	39	32	20
South	91	127	77	99	50	46
South Atlantic	62	87	47	65	33	31
East South Central	35	36	31	27	18	17
West South Central	57	83	52	66	34	28
West	97	93	77	73	43	37
Mountain	39	45	33	37	16	20
Pacific	89	81	70	64	40	31
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	149	151	114	122	61	60
Small Metro	127	126	107	102	70	54
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	97	106	82	86	52	49
< 250K Pop.	89	72	71	56	46	23
Nonmetro	71	77	59	56	30	28
Urbanized	58	51	44	39	23	21
Less Urbanized	52	55	44	38	18	17
Completely Rural	20	23	16	19	9	10
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.113D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.39	0.41	0.36	0.37	0.24	0.21
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.00	1.15	0.93	1.01	0.77	0.64
New England	2.27	2.91	2.15	2.65	2.10	1.78
Middle Atlantic	1.08	1.14	0.99	0.98	0.72	0.59
Midwest	0.85	0.83	0.81	0.78	0.48	0.41
East North Central	0.95	1.00	0.83	0.98	0.45	0.49
West North Central	1.79	1.50	1.93	1.26	1.21	0.80
South	0.57	0.68	0.52	0.58	0.36	0.31
South Atlantic	0.79	0.95	0.65	0.77	0.48	0.43
East South Central	1.42	1.23	1.31	1.02	0.78	0.72
West South Central	1.00	1.31	1.03	1.18	0.71	0.55
West	0.83	0.86	0.77	0.72	0.46	0.39
Mountain	1.18	1.40	1.10	1.22	0.60	0.69
Pacific	1.06	1.06	0.98	0.88	0.59	0.47
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.57	0.57	0.51	0.50	0.30	0.27
Small Metro	0.76	0.79	0.70	0.72	0.53	0.43
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.93	1.00	0.84	0.90	0.62	0.58
< 250K Pop.	1.33	1.32	1.29	1.18	0.97	0.57
Nonmetro	0.85	0.81	0.75	0.66	0.44	0.41
Urbanized	1.46	1.42	1.18	1.19	0.73	0.78
Less Urbanized	1.19	1.05	1.11	0.88	0.55	0.49
Completely Rural	2.60	2.35	2.38	1.88	1.64	1.21
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.113P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 12 to 20, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.3878		0.1124		0.3447
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.5477		0.4270		0.3055
New England	0.7905		0.4219		0.6224
Middle Atlantic	0.5656		0.7095		0.3272
Midwest	0.7381		0.3914		0.6160
East North Central	0.7590		0.6513		0.6464
West North Central	0.9110		0.4305		0.8397
South	0.7832		0.8268		0.6447
South Atlantic	0.8705		0.3551		0.7240
East South Central	0.3083		0.5372		0.7706
West South Central	0.2274		0.3664		0.5960
West	0.2658		0.1740		0.3826
Mountain	0.8517		0.9200		0.2209
Pacific	0.1773		0.1353		0.1123
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.4566		0.7932		0.7274
Small Metro	0.0667		0.1015		0.3792
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.4678		0.4443		0.7698
< 250K Pop.	0.0362		0.0900		0.0512
Nonmetro	0.4701		0.0270		0.1010
Urbanized	0.9530		0.8740		0.2499
Less Urbanized	0.7935		0.0170		0.2584
Completely Rural	0.1135		0.2057		0.8068
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.114C Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Numbers in Thousands, 2004 and 2005
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	1,513	1,452	787	795	384	379
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	683	680	362	347	166	173
New England	346	327	161	176	75	97
Middle Atlantic	589	594	325	299	148	144
Midwest	529	559	327	324	201	185
East North Central	433	468	284	247	179	135
West North Central	303	305	162	199	92	120
South	929	882	486	481	222	214
South Atlantic	759	743	378	371	155	152
East South Central	246	305	146	189	75	80
West South Central	476	408	267	250	141	136
West	824	784	382	374	174	186
Mountain	365	381	159	183	71	72
Pacific	739	679	348	325	158	169
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	1,237	1,216	624	621	278	287
Small Metro	888	792	467	446	242	215
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	734	660	364	344	194	177
< 250K Pop.	503	449	291	280	142	121
Nonmetro	526	543	320	294	146	143
Urbanized	346	381	210	202	88	81
Less Urbanized	382	370	224	207	112	113
Completely Rural	231	264	101	110	53	51
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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**Table 2.114D Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: Standard Errors of Percentages, 2004 and 2005**
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.46	0.47	0.34	0.33	0.18	0.18
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	1.07	1.10	0.84	0.76	0.42	0.42
New England	1.60	1.90	1.53	1.40	0.75	0.88
Middle Atlantic	1.32	1.33	1.00	0.90	0.50	0.48
Midwest	0.81	0.82	0.65	0.63	0.42	0.39
East North Central	0.93	0.91	0.81	0.69	0.53	0.41
West North Central	1.61	1.64	1.07	1.32	0.62	0.83
South	0.84	0.80	0.58	0.56	0.30	0.28
South Atlantic	1.25	1.19	0.84	0.79	0.38	0.36
East South Central	1.55	1.79	1.04	1.35	0.60	0.63
West South Central	1.43	1.26	1.08	0.97	0.63	0.61
West	1.00	1.02	0.71	0.76	0.37	0.41
Mountain	1.59	1.52	0.98	1.22	0.48	0.53
Pacific	1.26	1.32	0.91	0.94	0.48	0.53
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.62	0.68	0.47	0.49	0.24	0.25
Small Metro	0.86	0.81	0.65	0.60	0.39	0.33
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.98	0.92	0.76	0.72	0.47	0.42
< 250K Pop.	1.53	1.51	1.15	1.06	0.65	0.55
Nonmetro	1.07	0.97	0.77	0.68	0.38	0.39
Urbanized	1.58	1.68	1.21	1.20	0.57	0.57
Less Urbanized	1.45	1.32	1.05	0.91	0.57	0.61
Completely Rural	3.79	3.78	2.17	1.82	1.69	1.04
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.

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Table 2.114P Alcohol Use, Binge Alcohol Use, and Heavy Alcohol Use in the Past Month among Persons Aged 21 or Older, by Geographic Characteristics: P Values from Tests of Differences of Percentages, 2005 Versus 2004
Geographic Characteristic	TYPE OF ALCOHOL USE
	Alcohol Use		Binge Alcohol Use		Heavy Alcohol Use
	2004	2005	2004	2005	2004	2005
TOTAL	0.0034		0.9425		0.1654
GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
Northeast	0.8071		0.1978		0.6509
New England	0.2580		0.1621		0.8156
Middle Atlantic	0.7879		0.4872		0.6969
Midwest	0.1542		0.7780		0.2368
East North Central	0.2720		0.5530		0.0683
West North Central	0.3485		0.7232		0.5548
South	0.0063		0.7080		0.0515
South Atlantic	0.0048		0.8142		0.0119
East South Central	0.2277		0.0782		0.6588
West South Central	0.8577		0.8865		0.9090
West	0.1147		0.2487		0.7816
Mountain	0.0280		0.7298		0.8402
Pacific	0.5134		0.2670		0.7007
COUNTY TYPE
Large Metro	0.0299		0.3127		0.2812
Small Metro	0.0466		0.1887		0.3926
250K - 1 Mil. Pop.	0.0042		0.3367		0.7686
< 250K Pop.	0.7442		0.3487		0.2754
Nonmetro	0.5752		0.7356		0.8381
Urbanized	0.4843		0.9345		0.7689
Less Urbanized	0.3107		0.2105		0.4733
Completely Rural	0.2133		0.1876		0.1266
*Low precision; no estimate reported. NOTE: Binge Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days. Heavy Alcohol Use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days; all heavy alcohol users are also binge alcohol users. Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2004 and 2005.