2002 Youth Smoking Survey - Technical Report

Table 12-8 - Practices of Health Practitioners, Canada and United States (Percentages)

	Canada	United States
Doctor Talked to You About Tobacco? (a)	19.5	23.7
Dentist Talked to You About Tobacco? (b)	8.8	15.6

(a) The questions were slightly different. NYTS: "Has a doctor or someone in a doctor's office talked to you about the danger of tobacco use in the past 12 months?" YSS: "Has a doctor ever talked to you about what smoking or using smokeless tobacco does to your health?"

(b) NYTS: "Has a dentist or someone in a dentist's office talked to you about the danger of tobacco use in the past 12 months?" YSS: "Has a dentist ever talked to you about what smoking or using smokeless tobacco does to your health?"

Source: YSS (2002); NYTS (2000)