- In 1999, 19.2% of Florida public middle school students used some form of tobacco on one
or more of the past 30 days. This rate is a 21% decline from 1998 when 24.4% of middle
school students used some form of tobacco on one or more of the past 30 days.
- Occasional tobacco use (using some form of tobacco on 1 to 19 of the past 30 days) among
middle school students dropped from 18% in 1998 to 14.1% in 1999.
- The percent of middle school students who used tobacco frequently (used some form of
tobacco on 20 or more of the past 30 days) in 1999 was not significantly different from
1998.
- Between 1998 and 1999, the prevalence of middle school students who did not use any form
of tobacco in the past 30 days increased from 75.6% to 80.8%.
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- In 1999, 32.3% of Florida public high school students used some form of tobacco on one
or more of the past 30 days. This is an 8.5% decline from 1998 when 35.3% of high school
students were tobacco users in the past 30 days. This decline is statistically
significant.
- Occasional tobacco use among high school students significantly declined from 19.5% in
1998 to 17% in 1999.
- Frequent tobacco use among high school students was not significantly different from
1998 (15.9%) to 1999 (15.3%).
- In 1999, 67.7% of high school students did not use any form of tobacco in the past 30
days, compared to 64.7% of high school students in 1998. This change was not statistically
significant.
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