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Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)

Egypt

Fact Sheet • • • • • • • •

The Egypt 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 Egypt could include in a comprehensive tobacco control program.

The Egypt GYTS was a school-based survey of students in grade 2nd prep., 3rd prep., and 1st secondary conducted in 2005.

A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce representative data for each of the three regions in Egypt. 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 902%, the student response rate was 85.4%, and the overall response rate was 77.0%. A total of 4,196 students participated in the Egypt GYTS.

Prevalence

13.6% of students had ever smoked cigarettes (Male = 19.7%, Female = 5.7%)

14.4% currently use any tobacco product (Male = 17.6%, Female = 8.6%)

4.1% currently smoke cigarettes (Male = 6.0%, Female = 1.2%)

12.0% currently use other tobacco products (Male = 13.9%, Female = 7.9%)

19.4% of never smokers are likely to initiate smoking next year

Knowledge and Attitudes

30.9% think boys and 24.1% think girls who smoke have more friends

26.0% think boys and 21.1% think girls who smoke look more attractive

Access and Availability—Current Smokers

21.3% usually smoke at home

36.7% buy cigarettes in a store

83.0% who bought cigarettes in a store were NOT refused purchase because of their age

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

38.0% live in homes where others smoke in their presence

42.2% are around others who smoke in places outside their home

84.7% think smoking should be banned from public places

66.6% think smoke from others is harmful to them

52.9% have one or more parents who smoke

8.1% have most or all friends who smoke

Cessation—Current Smokers

78.4% want to stop smoking

69.8% tried to stop smoking during the past year

88.2% have ever received help to stop smoking

Media and Advertising

73.0% saw anti-smoking media messages, in the past 30 days

59.8% saw pro-cigarette ads on billboards, in the past 30 days

52.7% saw pro-cigarette ads in newspapers or magazines, in the past 30 days

16.4% have an object with a cigarette brand logo

14.5% were offered free cigarettes by a tobacco company representative

School

56.8% had been taught in class, during the past year, about the dangers of smoking

48.1% had discussed in class, during the past year, reasons why people their age smoke

50.8% had been taught in class, during the past year, the effects of tobacco use

Highlights

  • Approximately 1 in 7 students currently use any form of tobacco; 4.1% of the students currently smoke cigarettes; 12% currently use some other form of tobacco.
  • ETS exposure is high—over one third of the students live in homes where others smoke, and more than 1 in 4 are exposed to smoke around others outside of the home. Over half of the students have at least one parent who smokes, and 8.1% have friends most or all friends who smoke.
  • Two-thirds of students think smoke from others is harmful to them.
  • Over three-quarters of the current smokers want to stop smoking.
  • 14.5% of students were offered a free cigarette by a tobacco company representative.
  • Over 7 in 10 students saw anti-smoking media messages in the past 30 days; nearly 6 in 10 students saw pro-cigarette ads in the past 30 days.

 

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Page last modified 06/27/2007