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Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)

Somaliland

Fact Sheet • • • • • • • •

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

The Somaliland GYTS was a school-based survey of students in primary 6-8 and secondary 1 conducted in 2007.

A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce representative data for Somaliland. 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 96%, the student response rate was 90.2%, and the overall response rate was 86.6%. A total of 1,998 students participated in the Somaliland GYTS.

Prevalence

16.2% of students had ever smoked cigarettes (Male = 14.5%, Female = 14.1%)

20.5% currently use any tobacco product (Male = 20.6%, Female = 15.8%)

5.1% currently smoke cigarettes (Male = 4.1%, Female = 4.2%)

17.8% currently use other tobacco products (Male = 18.4%, Female = 13.5%)

23.5% of never smokers are likely to initiate smoking next year

Knowledge and Attitudes

59.1% think boys and 44.1% think girls who smoke have more friends

11.4% think boys and 13.4% think girls who smoke look more attractive

Access and Availability—Current Smokers

32.2% usually smoke at home

49.5% buy cigarettes in a store

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

30.6% live in homes where others smoke in their presence

46.9% are around others who smoke in places outside their home

75.9% think smoking should be banned from public places

30.9% think smoke from others is harmful to them

31.1% have one or more parents who smoke

8.2% have most or all friends who smoke

Cessation—Current Smokers

86.3% want to stop smoking

50.4% tried to stop smoking during the past year

78.3% have ever received help to stop smoking

Media and Advertising

81.9% saw anti-smoking media messages, in the past 30 days

76.8% saw pro-cigarette ads on billboards, in the past 30 days

66.5% saw pro-cigarette ads in newspapers or magazines, in the past 30 days

27.5% have an object with a cigarette brand logo

26.3% were offered free cigarettes by a tobacco company representative

School

49.2% had been taught in class, during the past year, about the dangers of smoking

41.0% had discussed in class, during the past year, reasons why people their age smoke

53.6% had been taught in class, during the past year, the effects of tobacco use

Highlights

  • Approximately 1 in 5 of students currently use any form of tobacco; 5.1% of the students currently smoke cigarettes; 17.8% currently use some other form of tobacco.
  • ETS exposure is high—over 30% of the students live in homes where others smoke, and approximately 47% of the students are exposed to smoke around others outside of the home; nearly one-third of the students have a parent who smokes and over 1 in 12 students have friends who smoke.
  • Only 30.9% of the students think smoke from others is harmful to them.
  • Over 86% of the current smokers want to stop smoking.
  • Over 1 in 4 students was offered a free cigarette by a tobacco company representative.
  • Over 8 in 10 students saw anti-smoking media messages in the past 30 days; two-thirds of students saw pro-cigarette ads in the past 30 days.

 

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Page last reviewed 06/27/2007
Page last modified 06/27/2007