Cigarette Smoking
Statistics
Middle School (Grades 6-8):
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%):
Two thirds of
current
cigarette
smokers in
grades 9-12:
Relatively few
current
cigarette
smokers under
the age of 18
bought them
from:
How cigarette smokers under the age of 18 usually get cigarettes:
Middle School (Grades 6-8):
- 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%)
- 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:
- bought them in either a gas station or convenience store. (33.5%)
- bought them in either a gas station or a convenience store. (67.1%)
- 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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