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Mother's Self-Report of Smoking and Alcohol Use Two Years Before Pregnancy, Mississippi PRAMS, 2021 – Image Long Description

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This image is a clustered vertical bar chart titled "Mother's Self-Report of Smoking and Alcohol Use Two Years Before Pregnancy, Mississippi PRAMS, 2021." The chart compares the percentage of mothers who reported yes or no to smoking and alcohol use during the two years before pregnancy.

Values

The vertical axis represents percentages ranging from 0% to 100% in 20-percentage-point increments. The horizontal axis contains two categories: Smoking and Alcohol Use.

A legend at the bottom identifies the colors used in the chart. Blue bars represent "Yes" responses and orange bars represent "No" responses.

For Smoking:

• The blue Yes bar reaches 18.1%.
• The orange No bar reaches 81.9%.

This indicates that 18.1% of mothers reported smoking, while 81.9% reported not smoking during the two years before pregnancy.

For Alcohol Use:

• The blue Yes bar reaches 58.3%.
• The orange No bar reaches 41.7%.

This indicates that 58.3% of mothers reported alcohol use, while 41.7% reported no alcohol use during the two years before pregnancy.

Presentation

A substantially larger percentage of mothers reported not smoking (81.9%) than reported smoking (18.1%) during the two years before pregnancy. More than half of mothers reported alcohol use (58.3%), while 41.7% reported no alcohol use. Alcohol use was reported more frequently than smoking in the two years before pregnancy. The highest percentage shown in the chart is 81.9% for mothers who reported not smoking. The lowest percentage shown in the chart is 18.1% for mothers who reported smoking.

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