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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs)
Youth Tobacco Surveillance—United States, 2000
November 02, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. SS–04
MMWR Highlights
- 34.5% of high school students currently use some form of
tobacco.
- 15.1% 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% of middle school and 57% of high
school students who currently smoke live in a home where smokes
cigarettes.
- Approximately 69% of middle school and 58% 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%) were
significantly more likely than female students (12.7%) to use
tobacco. Among high school students, the gap between boys and girls
widens with 39.1% of males and 29.8% of females using
tobacco.
- Among middle school students, white (14.3%), black (17.5
%) and Hispanic (16.0%) students were significantly more
likely than Asian (7.5%) students to use a tobacco product. Among
high school students, whites (38.0%) were significantly more
likely than blacks (26.5%), Hispanics (28.4%) or Asians
(22.9%) students to currently use tobacco.
- Approximately 11% of middle school and 16% 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
% for current tobacco users.
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Page last modified 02/28/2007