Kentucky Youth Tobacco Survey KYTS

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Kentucky Youth Tobacco Survey (KYTS)

• 2002 Results

Original Report was written by Teresa A. Wood,
Ph.D. Katherine Gresham, MA Ky. Dept. for Public
Health
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Disclaimer

• The following presentation is a synopsis of a
  research report. DSA and REACH are not endorsing
  or taking a position on the methodology or
  reported findings. The information has been
  drawn from the executive summary. This
  presentation is for informational purposes only,
  and the intent is to help general prevention
  practitioners translate research into practice.
  Neither REACH nor DSA are validating, endorsing,
  synthesizing or in any other way critically
  evaluating the study, but merely summarizing the
  reported work of another research group, in order
  to inform practitioners.

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Survey Overview

• Information gathered
• prevalence of tobacco use among young people
  (middle and high school
  students)
• secondhand smoke exposure
• cessation of tobacco use
• minors access to tobacco products
• tobacco use in schools
• tobacco-related attitudes of young people and
• the influence of peers and family members in
  using tobacco products
• Conducted by Kentucky Department for Public
  Health (KDPH)
• Data collected from March to June 2002
• Full report can be found at http//chs.ky.gov/publ
  ichealth/tobacco.htm

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Overview of Results
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Reported Current Tobacco Use
(defined as using a tobacco
product 1 or more times in past 30 days)

• 34 of Kentucky high school students and 15 of
  middle school students are current smokers (down
  from 37 and 22, respectively, in 2000)
  
• These rates are higher than national average for
  this year (28 and 11, respectively)
• Significant drop in current smoking for 7th
  graders from 28 in 2000 to 17 in 2002
• Significant drop in current smoking for white
  middle school students from 22 in 2000 to 14
  in 2002

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• 16 of African-American high school students
  currently use cigarettes compared to 36 of white
  students
• Greatest increase in current smoking rates is
  seen between 6th and 7th grades, with almost 1 in
  4 students smoking by the time they reach 8th
  grade
• From grades 9 to 12 current smoking rates jump
  from 27 to 42
• Current use of spit/smokeless tobacco is 1 in 4
  among high school boys and 1 in 5 among middle
  school boys

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Reported Frequent Cigarette Use (defined as
smoking cigarettes on 20 or more of the past 30
days)

• 20 of high school students and 4 of middle
  school students report frequent cigarette use
• Approximately 1 in 4 11th and 12th graders are
  frequent smokers
• Frequent cigarette smoking is well established by
  the 9th grade

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Reported Lifetime Tobacco Use (defined as ever
tried any tobacco product)

• Lifetime cigarette use may be declining overall
  69 of high school students and 44 of middle
  school students have smoked cigarettes at some
  time (down from 74 and 50, respectively, in
  2000)
• Lifetime cigar use for high school students
  declined significantly from 54 in 2000 to 48 in
  2002
• Lifetime use of smokeless or spit tobacco is
  statistically unchanged overall, but may be
  increasing among 11th and 12th graders (1 in 2
  high school boys and 1 in 3 middle school boys
  have tried smokeless tobacco)

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Reported Tobacco Dependence (defined as having
smoked 100 or more cigarettes, or needing a
cigarette everyday)

• 15 of all high school students smoked their
  first cigarette before age 11 males are more
  likely to have smoked before age 11 than females
• 39 of high school students and 18 of middle
  school students have smoked 100 or
  more cigarettes
• Nearly ½ of high school students say they need a
  cigarette every day
• 1 in 3 middle school smokers need a cigarette
  every day 11 of 6th graders need a
  cigarette daily, while 35 of 7th graders
  need one every day

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Reported Tobacco Cessation

• 75 of current youth smokers in Kentucky believed
  they could quit smoking if they wanted to, but
• 49 of high school smokers and 53 of middle
  school smokers were unsuccessful in their
  attempts to quit smoking
• Significantly FEWER high school students
  attempted to quit smoking in 2002
  (49 of current smokers) compared
  to 2000 (60 of current smokers)

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Reported Access to Tobacco Products

• 20 of high school students and 7 of middle
  school students purchase tobacco from retail
  outlets
• 62 of high school students and 75 of middle
  school students who made retail tobacco purchases
  were not asked to show proof of age
• 49 of high school students and 31 of middle
  school students were denied tobacco purchases due
  to their age at some point during the year

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• 24 of high school students obtain cigarettes by
  giving money to an older person to purchase them
• 27 of middle school students get cigarettes by
  borrowing/bumming them from someone else
• 10 of high school students and 13 of middle
  school student smokers were given cigarettes by
  an older person

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Reported Secondhand Smoke

• 45 of high school nonsmokers report exposure
  to SHS while riding in a car
• 74 of high school nonsmokers report exposure
  while in a room with a smoker
• 50 of middle school nonsmokers are exposed to
  SHS in a car, while 63 are exposed while in a
  room with a smoker
• The rate of exposure to SHS for high school
  smokers is 88 while in a car, and 96 while in a
  room with another smoker
• 86 of middle school smokers are exposed in a
  car, while 90 are exposed in a room with another
  smoker

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Reported Social Influences Impacting Tobacco Use

• 61 of high school smokers and 76 of
  middle school smokers live with a person who
  smokes
• 91 of high school smokers have at least one
  friend who smokes, while 44 of nonsmokers have
  one or more friends who smoke
• 86 of middle school smokers have at least one
  friend who smokes, while 22 of nonsmokers in
  middle school have one or more friends that smoke