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Youth Tobacco Surveillance
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United States, 19981999
October 13, 2000 / Vol. 49 / SS 10
October 13, 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR) Surveillance Summary, Youth Tobacco Surveillance - United States, 1998-1999, that will enable states to design better
tobacco control programs and to evaluate what is and is not working in their efforts to reduce youth tobacco use. The report,
the first-ever multi-state evaluation survey, provides a complete summary of the National Youth Tobacco Survey
(NYTS) and
state-level data from 13 states that conducted the Youth Tobacco
Survey (YTS). The report covers a wide breadth of data collected
from middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) students. The report found that about half of middle school (50.9 percent)
and high school (54.4%) students who smoke want to completely stop. It also found that more than one in five middle school
(22.9%) and high school (23.7%) students who never smoked are susceptible to initiating cigarette smoking in
the next year. A previous NYTS study was released by the American Legacy Foundation in January 2000. This study focused on tobacco
use prevalence and found that 12.8 percent of middle school students and 34.8 percent of high school students currently use some
form of tobacco.
The data in the Youth Tobacco Surveillance Summary are organized
around seven categories of information (prevalence of use, knowledge and attitudes, minors access to tobacco, media and advertising,
smoking cessation, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, and school curriculum), which will assist states in designing, implementing,
and evaluating their comprehensive tobacco control program.
Other survey findings:
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Current smokers were almost twice as likely as never smokers to be in the same room with someone who was smoking on one or more
days of the past week and were twice as likely as never smokers to live in a home where someone else smokes.
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Nearly three-fourths (72.2%) of middle school students and more than half (59.3%) of high school students who currently smoke
were not asked to show proof of age when purchasing cigarettes.
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A majority of middle (87.2%) and high (91.7%) school students have seen actors smoking on television or in movies.
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Only 40% of middle school and 10% of high school students were taught ways to say no to tobacco as part of their school curriculum
during the most recent school year.
Youth
Tobacco
Surveillance
United
States,
19981999 MMWR Highlights
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