Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey

Since 2001, The Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation (VTSF) has commissioned the biennial Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) of middle school and high school students. Public school students in grades 6 through 12 were surveyed about tobacco use, availability of tobacco products, environmental tobacco smoke, tobacco prevention education, tobacco advertisements and depictions of tobacco use in the media.

The latest survey was conducted in fall 2005 by Virginia Commonwealth University’s Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory (SERL) and Community Health Research Initiative (CHRI). Results were released in spring 2006. More than 2,200 students (1,124 middle school students and 1,090 high school students) were surveyed in schools across the Commonwealth. The VTSF awarded VCU $133,571 to conduct the survey.

• 2005 Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey Report (pdf)
• 2005 Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey Data (pdf)

Some Sample Data From the Youth Tobacco Survey Report:

Calculated margin of sampling error: +/- 1% to +/- 5%
* Being a current smoker is defined as smoking on one or more days in the past month.