The California Tobacco Control Program: A decade of progress, Results from the California Tobacco Survey, 1990-1999

Cancer Prevention and Control Program and San Diego University of California

University of California at San Francisco, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education from Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC San Francisco

Abstract: Executive Summary and Key Findings EXECUTIVE SUMMARY During the 1990s in California, smoking behavior and attitudes about smoking have changed, as measured from the California Tobacco Surveys (CTS) and other data sources. Some of the most important findings from the CTS are highlighted below. For a more complete summary, see the Key Findings from each chapter of this report, which appear both in this Executive Summary and at the end of each chapter. Throughout this report, results are given with the margin of error (±95% confidence limits). Adult Smoking Behavior • Over the decade, per capita cigarette consumption fell by a factor of 57% in California compared to only 27% in the rest of the United States. By the end of 1999, Californians consumed only 4.1 packs of cigarettes per person per month, compared to 9.1 in the rest of the United States. • While adult (18+ years) smoking prevalence decreased in the first few years of the decade, after 1994 changes in prevalence were not statistically significant. The most recent CTS indicated that adult smoking prevalence was 18.3±0.3% in 1999. • Despite relatively stable smoking prevalence since 1993, fewer California smokers are heavy daily smokers, and between 1990 and 1999, the prevalence of daily smoking declined by a factor of 18.6%. These findings explain the decline in per capita cigarette consumption. In 1999, only 13.0±0.3% of Californians were daily smokers. Only 6.4±0.4% of California college graduates were daily smokers. • Over the decade, the percent of California smokers making a quit attempt lasting a day or longer in the last year increased by a factor of 25.9% to 60.1±1.5% in 1999. Quitters in 1999 appeared to be as successful as those earlier in the decade. • In California, the cigar fad appears to be dissipating, mostly among adults who have never smoked cigarettes. In 1999, most current California cigar smokers smoke only a few cigars a month (83.2±3.7% smoked

Keywords: California; 1990-1999; Tobacco; tobacco use; cigarette; california vs. United States; smoking prevelence; demographics of smoking; adult smoker; adolescent smoking; non-smokers' rights. protection of non-smokers; second hand tobacco smoke; young adult smoking; parental influences on smoking; quitting smoking; smoking cessation; california smokers; workplace smoking; smoking bans; tobacco quitting history; tobacco taxes; cigarette price sensitivity; tobacco price sensitivity; media influences on smoking; access and ease of purchase of cigarettes or tobacco; school smoking; other tobacco use; anti-smoking media; cigars; smokeless; bidis; health education and smoking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-01-01
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