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School children aged 12-17 years with smokeless tobacco lesions by selected demographic characteristics

Characteristics	Percent (95% C I)
Characteristics	N=17,027
Total	1.5 (0.9, 2.7)
Age in years
12–13	0.4 (0.20, 1.00)
14–15	1.4 (0.80, 2.40)
16–17	2.6 (1.40, 4.80)
Race/ethnicity
White	2.0 (1.2, 3.6)
Black	0.2 (0.0, 0.7)
Hispanic	0.8 (0.4, 1.8)
Gender
Male	2.9 (1.6, 5.2)
Female	0.1 (0.0, 0.2)

Data source: The 1986-1987 National Survey of Oral Health in US School Children, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health via Tomar SL, Winn DM, Swango PA, Giovino GA, Kleinman DV. Oral mucosal smokeless tobacco lesions among adolescents in the United States. J Dent Res 1997;76:1277–1286.

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