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Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)

Mauritania

Fact Sheet • • • • • • • •

The Mauritania GYTS includes data on prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use: access/availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum. These determinants are components Mauritania could include in a comprehensive tobacco control program. The Mauritania GYTS was a school-based survey of students in 6ème AF, 1ère AS, 2ère AS, and 3ère AS cconducted in 2006.
A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce representative data for Mauritania. At the first stage, schools were selected with probability proportional to enrollment size. At the second stage, classes were randomly selected and all students in selected classes were eligible to participate. The school response rate was 94.3%, the student response rate was 88.3%, and the overall response rate was 83.3%. A total of 3,771 students participated in the Mauritania GYTS.

Prevalence

30.0% of students had ever smoked cigarettes (Male = 34.0%, Female = 24.4%)

33.1% currently use any tobacco product (Male = 36.2%, Female = 29.2%)

19.9% currently smoke cigarettes (Male = 21.9%, Female = 16.9%)

20.7% currently use other tobacco products (Male = 22.7%, Female = 18.3%)

22.9% of never smokers are likely to initiate smoking next year

Knowledge and Attitudes

44.9% think boys and 35.1% think girls who smoke have more friends

39.0% think boys and 32.1% think girls who smoke look more attractive

Access and Availability - Current Smokers

25.7% usually smoke at home

38.0% buy cigarettes in a store

65.6% who bought cigarettes in a store were NOT refused purchase because of their age

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

43.8% live in homes where others smoke in their presence

51.9% are around others who smoke in places outside their home

55.9% think smoking should be banned from public places

31.2% think smoke from others is harmful to them

27.0% have one or more parents who smoke

13.9% have most or all friends who smoke

Cessation - Current Smokers

74.8% want to stop smoking

79.3% tried to stop smoking during the past year

Media and Advertising

74.9% saw anti-smoking media messages, in the past 30 days

71.3% saw pro-cigarette ads on billboards, in the past 30 days

66.0% saw pro-cigarette ads in newspapers or magazines, in the past 30 days

30.8% have an object with a cigarette brand logo

25.7% were offered free cigarettes by a tobacco company representative

School

40.8% had been taught in class, during the past year, about the dangers of smoking

34.8% had discussed in class, during the past year, reasons why people their age smoke

38.3% had been taught in class, during the past year, the effects of tobacco use

Highlights

  • One third of the students currently use any form of tobacco; one fifth currently smoke cigarettes; one fifth currently use some other form of tobacco.
  • ETS exposure is high—4 out of 10 students live in homes where others smoke, while over half of the students are around others who smoke in places outside of their home; over one quarter of the students have one or more parent who smoke.
  • Approximately one third of the students think smoke from others is harmful to them.
  • Over half of the students think smoking should be banned from public places.
  • Approximately three quarters of the students who are currently smoking indicated that they want to stop smoking now; almost 8 in 10 students currently smoking tried to stop during the past year.
  • Almost three quarters of the students saw anti-smoking messages while 7 in 10 saw pro-cigarette ads on billboards, and two thirds of the students saw pro-cigarettes ads in newspapers & magazines.

For additional information, please E-mail:
tobaccoinfo@cdc.gov

 

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