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Tobacco
Use Among Middle and High School Students – National Youth Tobacco
Survey 1999
MMWR Highlights
January 28, 2000 / Vol. 49 / No. 3
Middle School Students
- The 1999 National Youth
Tobacco Survey conducted from September through October by the American
Legacy Foundation, in a joint project with the CDC Foundation, estimates
that about one in eight (12.8 percent) middle school students reported
using some form of tobacco (cigarettes, smokeless, cigars, pipes, bidis,
or kreteks) in the past month.
- Current cigarette use
among middle school students was 9.2 percent – 9.6 percent males and
8.8 percent for females.
- The rate of smoking
among middle school students by race/ethnic groups was relatively equal,
with about one in ten African American (9.0 percent), white (8.8
percent) and Hispanic (11.0 percent) middle school students reporting
smoking cigarettes in the past month.
- Cigar use was the
second most preferred tobacco product used in middle school, with 6.1
percent of students reporting smoking cigars in the past month. African
American middle school students (8.8 percent) were significantly more
likely to smoke cigars than white students (4.9 percent).
- Current smokeless
tobacco prevalence among middle school students was 2.7 percent – 4.2
percent for males and 1.3 percent for females.
- Pipe tobacco use among
middle school students was 2.4 percent – 3.5 percent for males and 1.4
percent for females.
- Current use of novel
tobacco products, such as bidis (or beedies) and kreteks (also called
clove cigarettes) was 2.4 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively, among
middle school students. There was no statistically significant
difference in bidis use among race/ethnic groups (1.8 percent for
white), (2.8 percent for African American), and (3.5 percent for
Hispanics) and kreteks use (1.7 percent for white), (1.7 percent for
African American), and (2.1 percent for Hispanics) among middle school
students.
High School Students
- More than one-third
(34.8 percent) of high school students reported using some form of
tobacco in the past month.
- More than a quarter
(28.4 percent) of high school students were current cigarette smokers,
with male and female students smoking at equal rates – 28.7 and 28.2
percent respectively.
- Current cigarette
smoking prevalence use by race/ethnic groups was higher among white high
school students (32.8 percent) followed by Hispanic (25.8 percent) and
African American (15.8 percent) students.
- Cigar use among high
school students was 15.3 percent. An estimated one in 5 male students
(20.3 percent) had used cigars compared to about 1 in 10 female students
(10.2 percent) in the past month.
- Males (11.6 percent)
were significantly more likely to use smokeless tobacco products than
female (1.5 percent) high school students.
- The use of bidis (5.0
percent) and kreteks (5.8 percent) among high school students nearly
equaled the use of smokeless tobacco (6.6 percent).
Tobacco Use Among Middle and High
School Students — United States, 1999 49(3) January 28, 2000
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