In the ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Surveillance Summaries article titled "Youth Tobacco Surveillance
--- United States, 1998--1999," Table 5 and Table 21 contain some incorrect data for
New Jersey. In Table 5 on page 49, in the column of data for "Any tobacco," the correct
New Jersey numbers are 18.9 (±2.1) for middle school students and 38.9 (±2.4) for high
school students. In Table 21 on page 65, in the column of data for "Think persons can
get addicted to cigarettes," under "Never Smokers," the correct New Jersey numbers
are 95.7 (±0.8) for middle school students and 95.7 (±1.6) for high school students;
under "Current smokers," the correct New Jersey numbers are 87.2 (±2.9) for middle
school students and 90.1 (±2.0) for high school students.
Disclaimer
All MMWR HTML versions of articles are electronic conversions from ASCII text
into HTML. This conversion may have resulted in character translation or format errors in the HTML version.
Users should not rely on this HTML document, but are referred to the electronic PDF version and/or
the original MMWR paper copy for the official text, figures, and tables.
An original paper copy of this issue can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, DC 20402-9371; telephone: (202) 512-1800.
Contact GPO for current prices.
**Questions or messages regarding errors in formatting should be addressed to
[email protected].
