Definitions for the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey 2018-19
- Current smoker
- has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in his/her lifetime, and includes the following:
- Current daily - a current smoker who has smoked at least one cigarette per day for each of the 30 days preceding the survey.
- Current occasional - a current smoker who has smoked at least one cigarette during the past 30 days, but has not smoked every day.
- Former smoker
- smoked at least 100 cigarettes in his/her lifetime and has not smoked at all during the past 30 days.
- Experimental smoker
- has smoked at least one whole cigarette, has not smoked 100 or more cigarettes in his/her lifetime and has smoked in the last 30 days.
- Former experimental smoker
- has smoked at least one whole cigarette, has not smoked 100 or more cigarettes in his/her lifetime and has not smoked at all in the past 30 days.
- Past 30 day smoker
- has smoked one or more cigarettes in the past 30 days. This category will include current smokers as well as experimental smokers who have tried a cigarette in the past 30 days.
- Puffer
- someone who has just tried a few puffs of a cigarette, but has never smoked a whole cigarette.
- Ever tried a cigarette
- someone who has ever tried a cigarette, even a few puffs.
- Never tried a cigarette
- someone who has never tried a cigarette, not even a few puffs.
- E-Cigarettes
- are battery-operated devices that mimic the act and taste of smoking cigarettes but do not contain tobacco. E-cigarettes include vaporizers with e-juice, vape pen, tank, or mod and are available with or without nicotine.
- Tobacco Products
- a product made in whole or in part of tobacco, including tobacco leaves. This includes cigarettes (including menthol and roll-your-own), cigars, little cigars or cigarillos, smokeless tobacco, waterpipe tobacco, and blunt wraps. E-cigarettes are excluded.
- Flavoured Tobacco Products
- include menthol cigarettes, little cigars or cigarillos, cigars, waterpipe tobacco, blunt wraps, and smokeless tobacco that have artificial flavours added.
- Vaporizing (vaping) Cannabis
- a method of administration of cannabis whereby a cannabis product or by-product is heated below the temperature of combustion, thus turned into vapour (not smoke), and inhaled by a person. This could include vaporizing dried cannabis flower or vaping cannabis liquid using a vape pen.
- Dabbing Cannabis
- a method of administration of a cannabis concentrate by inhaling the vapours produced as a result of contact of the concentrate with a very hot surface.
- Prevalence
- is the proportion of a group or population reporting the indicated behaviour or outcome, usually expressed as a percentage.
- Study Sample
- a group drawn from a larger population to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
- Statistically Significant
- the observed relationship between two or more variables is unlikely due to chance alone.
- Weighted Results
- weighting is the statistical technique used to allow the study sample to be representative of the target population; in other words, any participant’s response is weighted so that it represents a specific number of identical responses in the target population.
- 95% confidence interval
- provides a range of values in which the estimated prevalence will fall 95% of the time (i.e., if the survey was repeated 20 times, the results would fall within this range 19 of those times, or 19 times out of 20).
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