National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)

The National Youth Tobacco Survey uses a nationally representative sample of middle school and high school students. It measures the following: access to tobacco, second hand smoke, tobacco-related beliefs, attitudes and behaviors, and exposures to pro and anti-tobacco influences. This anonymous, self-administered survey includes questions about:

Use of various tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, bidis and kreteks (clove cigarettes)
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Factors that encourage smoking, such as tobacco advertising and having friends and family who smoke
Factors that discourage smoking, such as school prevention programs and advice to quit,
Awareness of pro- and anti-tobacco advertising

In 1999, the baseline NYTS was conducted, with the first formal data collection occurring in the spring of 2000. The 2000 NYTS was administered to 35,828 middle and high school students across the country. The survey design made it possible to include enough African American, Hispanic and Asian American youth to produce nationally representative estimates for these populations as well as for white youth. The 2000 NYTS generated the first national estimates of smoking behavior among Asian American youth in nearly ten years, resulting in unexpected findings about the magnitude of risk that smoking poses for this group.

In 2004, the CDC began collecting data for the NYTS. For NYTS data from 2004-present, please visit the CDC's NYTS web page.

National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)

Surveys

Surveys