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Tobacco
Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States,
1999
January 28, 2000 / Vol. 49 / No. 3
A new national study
conducted and released by the American Legacy Foundation in collaboration
with the CDC Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) is the first-ever study to measure the prevalence of
current tobacco use among middle school students and to document the
emergence of bidis (or beedies) and kreteks use (also called clove
cigarettes) among middle and high school students. The National Youth
Tobacco Survey was conducted from September through October 1999 and found
that 12.8 percent of middle school students and 34.8 percent of high
school students currently use some form of tobacco (cigarettes, smokeless,
cigars, pipes, bidis, or kreteks). This and other national studies have
shown that African American high school students smoked at much lower
rates than other students; however, the NYTS found that current cigarette
smoking prevalence among African American middle school students (9.0
percent) was similar to white (8.8 percent) and Hispanic (11.0 percent)
middle school students. This finding, if supported by future surveys, may
be an early indication that the differences in smoking rates between
African American and white students may be disappearing. The differing
patterns of tobacco product use across racial/ethnic groups require
further research.
The study also found the following:
- About one in 10 (9.2
percent) middle school students and more than a quarter (28.4 percent)
of high school students were current cigarette smokers.
- Cigar use was the
second most preferred tobacco product used by middle and high school
students. Among middle school students 6.1 percent reported 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). 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 one in 10 female students (10.2 percent).
- Current use of novel
tobacco products, such as bidi and kretek cigarettes, is an emerging
public health problem among young people in the United States. 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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Tobacco
Use Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco
Survey 1999 — MMWR Highlights Current* Cigarette
Smoking Among Middle and High School Students by Race/Ethnicity—National
Youth Tobacco Survey, 1999 — Graph Current*
Use Among Middle and High School Students by Type of Tobacco
Product—National Youth Tobacco Survey, 1999 — Graph
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