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Montana Adult Tobacco Survey

The Adult Tobacco Survey is conducted in 17 states under a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).   It includes questions about tobacco use, knowledge, and attitudes.  It is the most extensive survey about tobacco in the United States.  The core questionnaire is standardized to that states can be compared and can be combined to create national estimates.  Individual states may add optional questions supplied by the CDC or may create their own questions about topics of local interest.  

Results for the 2004 Montana Adult Tobacco Survey are available from MTUPP.

Quarterly Tobacco Surveillance Reports

MTUPP publishes Quarterly Tobacco Surveillance Reports on tobacco related issues in Montana. Paper copies are available on request by contacting (406) 444-7408 and you can be added to the mailing list.

Montana Prevention Needs Assessment

The Prevention Needs Assessment Community Student Survey (PNA) has been conducted every other year since 1998 throughout Montana by the Addictive and Mental Health Disorders Division off the Chemical Dependency Bureau of DPHHS.   It is an anonymous, classroom-administered, written survey.  It includes 150 questions about smoking and spit tobacco use, attitudes, and beliefs among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in Montana. 

MTUPP has produced "Trends in Youth Tobacco Use and Attitudes 2000 - 2006" based on the PNA.  The full text of this document can be downloaded from the PDF below. 

Trends in Youth Tobacco Use and Attitudes 2000-2006

Trends in Youth Tobacco Use and Attitudes 2000-2006-Surveillance Report

Limited information on smoking and spit tobacco use prevalence is available by region from the AMDD website.

Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey on Smoking.

The Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) assists educators and health professionals to determine the prevalence of health-risk behaviors as self-reported by Montana youth. In 1988, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated the YRBS to identify the leading causes of mortality, morbidity and social problems among youth.  Montana has participated since 1991.  The YRBS provides estimates of smoking and spit tobacco use prevalence for middle school and high school students.

Office of Public Instruction YRBS

Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a unique, state-based surveillance system active in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. This system is the primary source of state-based information on health risk behaviors among adult populations and is the largest continuously conducted telephone health survey in the world.  Montana has participated since 1984.  The BRFSS provides estimates of smoking every year.  Data about spit tobacco use is available for Montana for 1995 through 2000. 

Survey of Commercial Tobacco Use Among Native Americans in Montana

The Montana DPHHS Cardiovascular Health Program conducts health risk surveillance data every other year. Data about tobacco from that survey are summarized in The Survey of Tobacco Use and Attitudes Among American Indians in Montana, 2001, 2003, and 2005

American Indian Tobacco Report

American Indian Tobacco Report Tables

Pueblo-Helena Heart Studies

Heart attack rates in Pueblo, Colo., dropped by nearly 30 percent and those in Helena, Mont., by 40% after each city passed smokefree indoor air laws, according to two recent studies.  The Pueblo Heart Study was released 11/14/2005, at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions conference in Dallas, the largest and top peer-reviewed cardiovascular conference in the world.  The Helena Heart Study was published in the February 2004 British Medical Journal. 

These studies are two of the first to present and validate scientific evidence that suggests indoor smokefree air laws promote immediate and sustained reductions in heart attacks when applied to all workplaces and buildings open to the public. These new findings help substantiate what public health professionals have been telling the public for years – that secondhand smoke is deadly and that uniform smoke-free indoor air laws protect the public from this unnecessary toxin.

Helena Heart Study

Helena Heart Study and the Freedom to Breathe

Second hand smoke and Heart Disease

Pueblo Fact Sheet

Center For Disease Control and Prevention

CDC’s Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

28 Surgeon General’s Reports on Smoking and Health: 1964-2004 

Highlights include:

  • The Health Consequences of Smoking
  • Reducing Tobacco Use
  • Women and Smoking
  • Tobacco Use Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups
  • Prevent Tobacco Use Among Young People

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