The bar chart compares the proportion of New Zealand smokers who smoked three different cigarettes including, E-cigarettes, Cigarettes, and Cigars in the age group 18 – 25 years, from 2014 to 2018.
Overall, there were noticeable differences among the age group. Cigarettes recorded the highest percentages of New Zealand smokers, while Cigars had the lowest figure throughout the period.
In terms of Tobacco product, in 2014, E-cigarettes stood at 1% , whereas the percentage increased steadily at around 5% in 2016, it then peaked just under 15% in 2017, before rising approximately 17% by 2018. However, cigarettes followed the opposite trend. Cigarettes was the most popular in New Zealand, at almost 17% in 2014, followed by 15% and 13% in 2015 and 2016, respectively. This figure eventually reached at around 11% in 2018.
For the remaining cigars, There was a slight rise from 5% in 2014 and 10% by 2017, before falling at 6% in 2018.
