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Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)

Sample Questionnaires

Core Questionnaire

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GYTS comprises "core" country-approved questions designed to gather data on the following seven topics:

Prevalence of cigarette smoking and other tobacco use

• How many young people have experimented with smoking cigarettes or use other forms of tobacco products
• The age at which young people begin cigarette smoking 
• What brand of cigarettes young people smoke
• Where young people usually smoke

Knowledge and attitudes towards cigarette smoking

• The strength of intention to remain nonsmokers among young people who never smoked (index of susceptibility)
• What young people perceive to be the social benefits and the health risks of smoking cigarettes
• The extent of peer pressure on young people to begin cigarette smoking

Role of the media and advertising on the use of cigarettes

• How receptive young people are to cigarette advertising and other activities that promote cigarette use
• Awareness and exposure of young people to antismoking messages

Access to cigarettes

• Where young people usually get their cigarettes
• Whether sellers refuse to sell young people cigarettes because of their age
• How much money young people spend on cigarettes

Tobacco-related school curriculum

• What young people were taught in school about tobacco
• Young people’s perceptions of their school’s programs to prevent cigarette use

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)

• The extent of young people’s exposure to smoking at home and in other places
• Young people’s perceptions about the harmful effects of ETS

Cessation of cigarette smoking

• The short- and long-term likelihood that young cigarette smokers will quit

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