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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.