Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, December 2019 / Vol. 68 / No. SS-12

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• Alternative Title:
  Tobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2019
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Wang, Teresa W. ; Gentzke, Andrea S. ; Creamer, MeLisa R. ; Cullen, Karen A. ; Holder-Hayes, Enver ; Sawdey, Michael D. ; Anic, Gabriella M. ; Portnoy, David B. ; DrPH1, Sean Hu, ; Homa, David M. ; Jamal, Ahmed ; Neff, Linda J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health ; Center for Tobacco Products (United States. Food and Drug Administration)
• Description:
  Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States Most tobacco product use begins during adolescence. In recent years, tobacco products have evolved to include various smoked, smokeless, and electronic products.
  
  The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is an annual, cross-sectional, school-based, self-administered survey of U.S. middle school (grades 6–8) and high school (grades 9–12) students. A three-stage cluster sampling procedure is used to generate a nationally representative sample of U.S. students attending public and private schools. NYTS is the only nationally representative survey of U.S. middle and high school students that focuses exclusively on tobacco product use patterns and associated factors. NYTS is designed to provide national data on tobacco product use and has been conducted periodically during 1999–2009 and annually since 2011. Data from NYTS are used to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco use Prevention and control programs and to inform tobacco regulatory activities. Since its inception in 1999 through 2018, NYTS had been conducted via paper and pencil questionnaires. In 2019, NYTS for the first time was administered in schools using electronic data collection Methods. CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Tobacco Products, analyzed data from the 2019 NYTS to assess tobacco product use patterns and associated factors among U.S. middle and high school students. Overall, 19,018 questionnaires were completed and weighted to represent approximately 27.0 million students. On the basis of self-reported grade level, this included 8,837 middle school questionnaires (11.9 million students) and 10,097 high school questionnaires (15.0 million students); 84 questionnaires with missing information on grade level were excluded from school-level analyses. The continued monitoring of all forms of youth tobacco product use and associated factors through Surveillance efforts including NYTS is important to the development of public health policy and action at national, state, and community levels. Everyone, including public health professionals, health care providers, policymakers, educators, parents, and others who influence youths, can help protect youths from the harms of all tobacco products. In addition, the comprehensive and sustained implementation of evidence-based tobacco control strategies, combined with FDA’s regulation of tobacco products, is important for reducing all forms of tobacco product use among U.S. youths.
  
  Suggested citation for this article: Wang TW, Gentzke AS, Creamer MR, et al. Tobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2019. MMWR Surveill Summ 2019;68(No. SS-12):1–22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6812a1
  
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• Subjects:
  Adolescent Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Schools Smoking / Epidemiology Students Tobacco Products Young Adult
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2019; v. 68, no. 12
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6812a1
• ISBN:
  10.15585/mmwr.ss6811a1
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  31805035
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6903396
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  28 pdf pages
• Volume:
  68
• Issue:
  12
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