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NORTH CAROLINA YOUTH TOBACCO SURVEY (NC YTS)

Middle & High Schools Factsheet NC Middle & High School Current* Users of Any Tobacco Product: NC YTS, 1999-2015** 45

The NC YTS 2015 school response rates were 83.33% and 90.2% for MS and HS, respectively, and student response rates were 85.0% and 82.53% for MS and HS, respectively. The overall response rate was 70.83% for MS and 74.44% for HS. North Carolina enrollment figures (353,519 MS students, and 454,963 HS students) were used to generalize NC YTS findings to all MS and HS students in the state.

** Addition of emerging products to Any Tobacco User variable started in 2011.

38.3

40 Percentage of Students

The North Carolina Youth Tobacco Survey (NC YTS) is a public school-based survey of students in grades 6-12 and has been conducted every two years since 1999. For 2015 a total of 6,916 students (3,496 middle school (MS) students and 3,420 high school (HS) students) responded to the survey.

35.8

35

33.7 28.5

30

Percentage of Students

31.6

27.8

30

20

18.4

14.3

15

10.5

10

20.3

0

1999

2001

2003

2005 Middle School

0

2001

2003

11.6

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

High School

1 in every 10 (~41,008) middle school students is a current tobacco user

NC High Schools

3 in every 10 (~125,115) high school students are current tobacco users

NC Middle Schools

Students are currently smoking cigarettes 19.0

16.7

15.5

13.5 9.3

5.8

1999

8.6

NC Middle Schools

9.3

5

9.9

5

15.0

10

10.5

9.1

8,131

20 11.3

27.5

25.8

17.4

27.3

25

15

25.8

25

NC Middle & High School Current* Smoking Prevalence: NC YTS, 1999-2015 35

29.7 26.6

2005

4.5

2007

4.3

4.2

2009

Middle Schools

2011

2.5 2013

High Schools

2.3 2015

NC High Schools

42,311 Students are currently smoking cigarettes

Current use is defined as using on one or more of the past 30 days. **Beginning in 2011, NC YTS began including an item for use of emerging tobacco products. Emerging tobacco products include electronic cigarettes, clove cigars, dissolvable tobacco products, flavored cigarettes, flavored little cigars, hookahs or waterpipes, roll-your-own cigarettes, and snus. Data on emerging tobacco product use prior to 2011 is not available.

*

Concerning Trends – 2015

Current E-Cigarette Use - NC High School Students: NC YTS, 2011-2015

Current Emerging Tobacco Users***

E-Cigarettes

30

9.9%

23.8%

(~34,998) MS students

(~108,281) HS students

27.7

Percent

25

Current emerging tobacco user is someone who self-reported as using emerging tobacco products on one or more of the past 30 days. Emerging tobacco products include electronic cigarettes, clove cigars, dissolvable tobacco products, flavored cigarettes, flavored little cigars, hookahs or waterpipes, rollyour-own cigarettes, and snus. ***

20

Percentage of H.S. Students

12 9.3

7.7

5 1.7 0

2013

2015

2015: Considering Use Next Year

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke – 2015 Smoking is Always Allowed in the Home

30 25

13.5

10

NC High School Students Current Users of Emerging Tobacco Products***: NC YTS 2011-2015

20

16.8

15.5

15

2011

23.8 22.4 18.7

Cigarettes

Smoking is Always Allowed in Vehicle

16.8

15

7.7

10 5

3.6

1.7

6.1

5.2 4.6

3.5

0 Any Emerging Tobacco Product

E-cigarettes

2011

2013

Hookahs/ Waterpipes

8.9%

11.5%

11.2%

14.0%

(~31,463) MS students

(~52,321) HS students

(~39,594) MS students

(~63,695) HS students

3.1

Flavored Little Cigars

2015

Think Smoke from Others is Harmful to Them NC Middle & High School Students Exposed to Secondhand Smoke by Venue and Smoking Status: NC YTS 2015

85.1

Percentage of Students

80 72.7

70 60

92.4%

92.6%

(~326,652) MS students

(~421,296) HS students

Cessation Behavior among Current* Smokers – 2015

73.4

54.5

50

Want to Stop Smoking

40

Attempted to Quit Smoking in Past 12 Months

30 20

15.9

15.7 14.6

13.7

45.2%

45.2%

81.9%

61.6%

(~3,675) MS students

(~19,125) HS students

(~6,659) MS students

(~34,304) HS students

10 0

Never Current Smoker Smoker In the Home Middle School

Never Current Smoker Smoker In Vehicle High School

Exposure to secondhand smoke is defined as exposure on one or more of past 7 days. Current use is defined as using on one or more of the past 30 days.



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For more information, please contact the North Carolina Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch at (919) 707-5400. www.tobaccopreventionandcontrol.ncdhhs.gov State of North Carolina • Department of Health and Human Services • Division of Public Health www.ncdhhs.gov • www.publichealth.nc.gov N.C. DHHS is an equal opportunity employer and provider.