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Tobacco Use in the USA |
Underage Smoking
How cigarette
smokers under the age
of 18
usually get
cigarettes:
Middle School
(Grades 6-8):
About one-third
of students in
grades 6-8
usually obtain
cigarettes
through social
sources:
-
Borrowed them:
(23.3%)
-
Got from
someone older
than 18 years
old: (8.8%)
Almost one-fifth
of students
usually give
money to someone
to purchase
their cigarettes
for them (17.2%)
About 1 in 6
usually took
their cigarettes
from family or a
store (16.3%)
About one-third
of students
usually get
their cigarettes
some other way
not specified in
the survey
(29.2%):
-
Males were
twice as
likely to
usually get
their
cigarettes
some other
way than
females
(females:
41.8%,
males:
20.1%)
High School
(Grades 9-12):
-
One-fifth of
high school
students usually
get their
cigarettes by
purchasing them
in a store:
(21.6%).
-
Boys
are much more
likely to buy
their cigarettes
in a store than
are girls.
(females: 13.5%,
males: 31.7%)
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Social sources
are also an
important way
for high school
students to get
cigarettes:
-
Borrowed them:
(23.6%)
-
got them
from someone
older than 18:
(4.8%)
-
One-third of
high school
students usually
give money to
someone to buy
cigarettes for
them.
-
Girls are
more likely to
give money to
someone to buy
their cigarettes
than are boys.
(females: 39.4%,
males: 14.4%)
-
About 1 in 10
usually get
their cigarettes
in a way not
specified on the
survey (8.5%)
Where cigarette
smokers under age 18
bought last pack
cigarettes
in the last 30 days:
One third of
current
cigarette
smokers in
grades 6-8:
-
bought them
in either a
gas station
or
convenience
store.
(33.5%)
Two thirds of
current
cigarette
smokers in
grades 9-12:
-
bought them
in either a
gas station
or a
convenience
store.
(67.1%)
Relatively few
current
cigarette
smokers under
the age of 18
bought them
from:
-
the Internet
(middle
school:
2.6%, high
school:
2.2%),
-
a vending
machine
(middle
school:
1.0%, high
school:
0.2%),
-
a drug store
(middle
school:
0.9%, high
school:
1.0%), or
-
a grocery
store
(middle
school:
2.9%, high
school:
2.1%).
Data Sources:
2005 Oklahoma Youth
Tobacco Survey (OYTS),
Oklahoma State
Department of Health
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In the USA: |
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Packs of cigarettes consumed by kids each year:
800 million!
(Over
$2.0 billion) |
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A
third of underage experimentation with smoking is
attributable
to tobacco company advertising and promotion! |
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Annual
health care expenditures solely from secondhand smoke exposure:
$4.98 billion!
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