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Percentage Who Use Iqmik or Spit Tobacco
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Prenatal Iqmik or Spit Tobacco Use, by Year
16.6%
5.0%
1.2%
Alaska, 2004-2006
Overall
2004 2005 2006
Year
2004 2005 2006
Overall 5.0% 5.7% 3.6%
Alaska Native 16.6% 20.8% 14.1%
Non-Native 1.2% 0.5% 0.2%
Alaska Native
Non-Native
14.1%
3.6%
0.2%
Source: Alaska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
Note: Although data about smokeless tobacco use have been collected since 1996, the
questions used since 2004 are substantively different than those used prior. For this
reason, data since 2004 are presented separately.
• In 2006, approximately 377 Alaska women used iq'mik or spit tobacco during their
pregnancy that resulted in a live-born infant.
• Between 2004 and 2006 there was no significant decline in prenatal iq'mik or spit
tobacco use among Alaska Native women.
• For the years 2004 through 2006 combined, Alaska Native women (17.1%) were 28
times as likely as non-Native women (0.6%) to use iq'mik or spit tobacco prenatally.
• Prenatal iq'mik or spit tobacco use is more common among women who live in
Southwest Alaska (56.3% vs. 0 - 7.7% for other Dept. of Labor regions, 2004-2005
data).
Alaska Tobacco Facts, 2009 Update 33