2001 Michigan Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Tobacco Fact Sheet
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Trends

Compared to 1997 and/or 1999, significantly fewer high school students are trying cigarettes, smoking on school property, and reporting recent smoking and cigar use. See Figure 5 .

Survey Question MI Gender Grade race/ethnicity
01 M F 9 10 11 12 White Black Hispanic
% of students who ever tried cigarette
smoking,
even one or two puffs
64 63 64 55 63 66 73 63 64 73
% of students who smoked a whole cigarette
for the first time before age 13
23 23 23 27 24 21 19 23 20 36
% of students who smoked cigarettes on
one or more of the past 30 days
26 24 27 20 23 26 35 28 12 28
% of students who smoked cigarettes on
20 or more
of the past 30 days
13 12 13 9 10 14 20 14 4 14
% of students who smoked 2 or more cigarettes
per day
on the days they smoked during the
past 30 days
18 17 19 14 15 19 25 19 7 23
% of students who smoked more than
10 cigarettes per day
on the days that they
smoked during the past 30 days
3 4 2 2 2 4 5 4 0 2
% of students who usually got their own
cigarettes by buying them
in a store or gas
station during the past 30 days
9 11 8 4 4 10 22 10 5 9
% of students less than 18 years of age who
were current smokers, and purchased cigarettes
at a store or gas station during the past 30 days
25 31 20 20 16 35 24
% of students who were not asked to show
proof of age when they bought cigarettes

in a store during the past 30 days
9 9 9 6 8 12 11 9 9 17
Of students less than 18 years of age who were
current cigarette smokers, and reported having
purchased cigarettes without being asked to
show proof of age
during the past 30 days
71 71
% of students who smoked cigarettes on school
property
on one or more of the past 30 days
9 9 9 8 8 9 11 10 4 9
% of students who ever smoked cigarettes daily,
that is, at least one cigarette every day for 30 days
20 19 21 16 17 24 26 22 9 28
% of students who were current smokers and have
tried to quit smoking during the past 12 months
64 59 68 67 63 66 62 65
% of students who have ever tried chewing
tobacco
, snuff, or dip
20 28 11 16 17 20 28 21 13 15
% of students who used chewing tobacco or
snuff on one or more of the past 30 days
8 12 3 8 5 8 9 8 6 11
% of students who used chewing tobacco or
snuff on school property on one or more of the
past 30 days
4 7 1 4 2 4 5 4 4 4
% of students who smoked cigars, cigarillos, or
little cigars on one or more of the past 30 days
15 21 8 13 14 14 20 15 15 17
% of students who used any tobacco during
the past 30 days
30 31 29 24 26 32 41 32 16 30

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