The bar chart below shows the percentages of New Zealand smokers in the age group 18-25 years, for the period 2014 -2018.

The bar chart depicts how much percentage of young smokers in New Zealand aged between 18 and 25 years old from 2014 to 2018.

Overall

, the trends of tobacco products changed over the five years. The percentages of E-cigarettes were only 2.5% in 2014, and the popularity of

this

product gradually increased to 5% in 2016,

then

this

became by far the most popular in 2018 at 16% among the three tobacco products.

However

, there was an inverse relationship that the figure for cigarettes was far and away the highest at 17.5% in 2014 and steadily decreased to 10% in 2017, ending with a small rise at 10.5% in 2018. In terms of the number of cigars, it remained the lowest number of smokers, with a range of percentages between 5% and 12.5% throughout the years.

To sum up

, there were negative correlations between E-cigarettes and cigarettes,

while

the proportion of cigars never grew over those two products.