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    While cigarette smoking among high school students has decreased, the use of other tobacco products such as cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookah has increased. Nearly 200,000 high school students currently use some form of tobacco product. Specifically, about 154,000 students used cigars, smokeless tobacco, or hookah in the past 30 days, with 89,000 using cigars, 60,000 using smokeless tobacco, and 83,000 using hookah or other tobacco products. The trends for cigars and hookah have increased from 2000 to 2012, while smokeless tobacco has remained steady.

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    While cigarette smoking among high school students has decreased, the use of other tobacco products such as cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookah has increased. Nearly 200,000 high school students currently use some form of tobacco product. Specifically, about 154,000 students used cigars, smokeless tobacco, or hookah in the past 30 days, with 89,000 using cigars, 60,000 using smokeless tobacco, and 83,000 using hookah or other tobacco products. The trends for cigars and hookah have increased from 2000 to 2012, while smokeless tobacco has remained steady.

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    Bureau of Tobacco Control StatShot Vol.6, No.

    4/April 2013

    Use of Tobacco Products Other than Cigarettes among High School Students
    Although much attention is focused on cigarettes, young people (middle and high school students) have access to other tobacco products including cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookah*. With decreases in cigarette smoking, it is important to monitor the use of other tobacco products to understand the full extent of tobacco use among youth. Current use is defined as using the product on one or more days in the past 30 days. Nearly 200,000 high school youth currently use tobacco products including cigarettes and other tobacco products (data not shown). About 154,000 high school youth used tobacco products such as cigars, smokeless tobacco, or hookah on one or more days in the past 30 days. Currently about 9.7% of high school youth (89,000) smoked a cigar on one or more days in the past 30 days. Current use of smokeless tobacco among high school students was 6.5% in 2012 (60,000 high school youth). The trend in smokeless tobacco use over time is not significant.

    Trends in other tobacco use among high school students in New York State, 2000-2012
    30 25 20 15

    Percent

    10 5 0 2000 11.9 4.6 14.0 Cigars 2002 9.6 5.5 11.8 Smokeless 2004 9.0 4.1 10.8 2006 8.5 3.1 9.7 Hookah* 2008 9.1 4.7 6.5 13.5 2010 7.9 5.1 7.4 13.8 2012 9.7 6.5 8.3 16.4

    Cigars Smokeless Hookah* allothertob**

    allothertob**

    * Hookah refers to tobacco smoked in a water pipe. The NY Youth Tobacco Survey started collecting data on Hookah use starting in 2008. **allothertob refers to all other tobacco products including cigars, smokeless tobacco and hookah. Cigarettes are not included.

    Source: New York Youth Tobacco Survey 2000-2012. Contact the Bureau of Chronic Disease Evaluation and Research, New York State Department of Health at (518) 473-0673 or type StatShot in the subject line of an e-mail and send it to tcp@health.state.ny.us.

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