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Youth Tobacco Surveillance — United States, 2000

MMWR Highlights

November 02, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. SS–04


  • 34.5 percent of high school students currently use some form of tobacco.
     
  • 15.1 percent of middle school students use some form of tobacco.
     
  • Cigarettes are the most used tobacco product followed by cigars and smokeless tobacco.
     
  • Exposure to secondhand smoke is very high among both middle school and high school students. During the week before the survey, approximately 9 of 10 current smokers and half of those who had never smoked were in the same room with someone who was smoking.
     
  • 8 of 10 current smokers and 3 of 10 of those who had never smoked rode in a car with someone who was smoking.
     
  • Approximately 70 percent of middle school and 57 percent of high school students who currently smoke live in a home where smokes cigarettes.
     
  • Approximately 69 percent of middle school and 58 percent of high school students under the age of 18 who currently smoke were not asked to show proof of age when they bought or tried to buy cigarettes.
     
  • Approximately half of current smokers in middle school and high school report that they usually smoke Marlboro ® cigarettes. Black students are more likely to smoke Newport ® cigarettes that any other brand.
     
  • Among middle school students, male students (17.6 percent) were significantly more likely than female students (12.7 percent) to use tobacco. Among high school students, the gap between boys and girls widens with 39.1 percent of males and 29.8 percent of females using tobacco.
     
  • Among middle school students, white (14.3 percent), black (17.5 percent) and Hispanic (16.0 percent) students were significantly more likely than Asian (7.5 percent) students to use a tobacco product. Among high school students, whites (38.0 percent) were significantly more likely than blacks (26.5 percent), Hispanics (28.4 percent) or Asians (22.9 percent) students to currently use tobacco.
     
  • Approximately 11 percent of middle school and 16 percent of high school students who had never used tobacco would wear something with a tobacco company name or picture on it. This rate increases to nearly 60 percent for current tobacco users.

MMWR – Youth Tobacco Surveillance — United States, 2000 50(SS–04) November 02, 2001
 


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