Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students -- United States

Abstract:
The 1999 National Youth Tobacco Survey is the first survey to ever investigate the current use of tobacco among middle school students and to document the emergence of new tobacco product use among middle and high school students. The American Legacy Foundation in collaboration with the CDC Foundation conducted this study from September through October 1999. Findings from the study will be published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on January 28, 2000. The study found that in the past month, about one in eight middle school students reported using some form of tobacco (cigarettes, smokeless, cigars, pipes, bidis, or kreteks). Among high school students, more than one third (34.8%)of high school students reported using some form of tobacco in the past month. Novel tobacco products such as bidis and kreteks are used by both middle school and high school students. Current use of bidis and kreteks was 2.4% and 1.9% respectively among middle school students. In high school students the use of these novel tobacco products equaled 5% and 5.8% respectively.

Publication: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Vol. 49 No.3


Date Published: 1/28/2000

Pages: 4

Comments:
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Location Code: 19098