By CDC 8/9/2012
“…Nearly 25 percent of high school males and more than 17 percent of high school females used some form of smoked tobacco product in 2011, while smokeless tobacco use among high school males (12.9 percent) was 8 times higher than among high school females (1.6 percent). …”
Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/p0809_youth_tobacco.html