Social Climate of Tobacco Control
- Current Cigarette Smoking by Youth in Mississippi (PDF, 160KB)
- The Mississippi Social Climate of Tobacco Control 2008 (PDF, 5 MB)
- For data from other years, scroll to the end of the page.
Social Climate Survey
Survey
Although comprehensive tobacco control programs have moved toward logic models that incorporate political and social intermediate objectives such as smoke-free worksites, tobacco control planning and evaluation has been hampered by the lack of timely, comprehensive data about the attitudes and practices of U.S. adults. The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) was created to fill this void.
Purpose
The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) was developed as a methodology to objectively measure the fundamental position of tobacco control in society and thereby provide a data collection system to monitor program impacts. The survey includes items to measure progress toward intermediate objectives such as policy changes, changes in social norms, reductions in exposure of individuals to environmental tobacco smoke, and rejection of pro-tobacco influences.
Methods
The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) was administered to representative samples of Mississippi adults and U.S. adults who were interviewed by telephone in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2008 (the SCS-TC was not administered to a Mississippi sample in 2006). Samples from all years represent the civilian, non-institutionalized adult population over age 18. Households were selected using random digit dialing procedures to include households with unlisted numbers. Once a household was contacted, the adult to be interviewed was selected by asking to speak with the person in the household who is 18 years of age or older and who will have the next birthday. Five attempts were made to contact those selected adults who were not home. The sample was weighted by race and gender, based on the most current U.S. Census estimates.
Reports & Fact Sheets
Current Cigarette Smoking by Youth in Mississippi (PDF, 160KB)
This report presents trends in current smoking and cigaretteconsumption from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, theYouth Tobacco Survey, the Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control,the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the Tobacco UseSupplement to the Current Population Survey, and the Tax Burden onTobacco.
The Mississippi Social Climate of Tobacco Control
