Table 4.
Access to tobacco products among middle and high school students who reported current use of any tobacco product, by survey setting: National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2021
| Access source | On school campus | At home/other place | p-valueb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted population numbera | % | 95% CI | Weighted population number | % | 95% CI | ||
| How you got your tobacco product used in the past 30 days | |||||||
| I got them from a friend | 500,000 | 34.5 | (30.9–38.4) | 250,000 | 30.2 | (23.9–37.4) | .2881 |
| I bought them myself | 450,000 | 30.6 | (26.5–35.1) | 280,000 | 34.5 | (29.7–39.5) | .3108 |
| I had someone else buy them for me | 470,000 | 32.0 | (28.6–35.6) | 200,000 | 25.0 | (20.3–30.3) | .0223 |
| Someone offered them to me | 410,000 | 27.9 | (23.8–32.3) | 200,000 | 24.2 | (20.3–28.5) | .1929 |
| I asked someone to give me some | 350,000 | 23.8 | (20.5–27.3) | 90,000 | 11.3 | (7.8–16.2) | <.0001 |
| I got them from a family member | 220,000 | 15.4 | (12.9–18.4) | 90,000 | 11.8 | (8.7–15.7) | .0805 |
| I took them from a store/another person | 100,000 | 7.2 | (5.4–9.6) | 30,000 | 4.2 | (2.6–6.6) | .0327 |
| I got them in some other way | 290,000 | 20.3 | (17.6–23.4) | 170,000 | 21.3 | (17.8–25.2) | .6685 |
| Where you bought your tobacco product used in the past 30 days | |||||||
| I did not buy them | 700,000 | 47.6 | (43.4–52.0) | 390,000 | 48.9 | (43.4–54.3) | .7581 |
| Bought them from another person (friend, family member, someone else) | 380,000 | 25.9 | (22.0–30.1) | 130,000 | 17.2 | (13.2–22.1) | .0021 |
| A vape shop or tobacco shop | 280,000 | 19.5 | (15.1–24.7) | 180,000 | 23.4 | (18.1–29.7) | .3155 |
| A gas station, convenience store | 310,000 | 21.0 | (17.7–24.6) | 150,000 | 18.8 | (14.7–23.8) | .4213 |
| A drug store | 80,000 | 5.8 | (4.0–8.5) | 20,000 | 3.4 | (1.9–5.9) | .1114 |
| A grocery store | 80,000 | 5.7 | (4.2–7.9) | 20,000 | 3.6 | (2.0–6.3) | .1082 |
| Through the mail | 60,000 | 4.2 | (2.7–6.5) | c | c | c | - |
| A mall or shopping center kiosk/stand | 60,000 | 4.1 | (2.6–6.5) | c | c | c | - |
| On the internet | 50,000 | 3.9 | (2.8–5.5) | c | c | c | - |
| A vending machine | 50,000 | 3.6 | (2.4–5.3) | c | c | c | - |
| Through a delivery service | 40,000 | 3.0 | (1.9–4.7) | c | c | c | - |
| Some other place | 240,000 | 16.5 | (13.6–19.8) | 110,000 | 14.1 | (11.5–17.1) | .1870 |
CI = confidence interval; – = not applicable. Significant differences by survey setting (p < .05) are indicated in bold type.
a
Rounded down to 10,000 persons.
b
p-values were from two-sided t-tests and not adjusted for multiplicity; t-tests were used to compare percentages of current tobacco users who reported getting or buying any tobacco product from a given access source by survey setting.
c
Data were statistically unreliable because of unweighted denominator <50 or a relative standard error >30%.