Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey - Newsletter
March 1, 2017
The use of tobacco products during adolescence increases the risk for adverse health effects and lifelong nicotine addiction. We asked about current use of five tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, spit tobacco, hookah, and e-cigarettes. While use of some forms of tobacco have decreased over the past decade, the addition of questions about newer forms of tobacco has presented a more complicated picture of tobacco use trends.