Research Guides: Health Statistics: Smoking / Tobacco

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI)
Set of surveillance indicators that enables public health professionals and policymakers to retrieve uniformly defined state and selected metropolitan-level data for chronic diseases and risk factors that have a substantial impact on public health.
National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS)
Created to assess the prevalence of tobacco use, as well as the factors promoting and impeding tobacco use among adults. ARCHIVED SITE. For historical purposes only.
National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)
Provides nationally representative data about middle and high school youth’s—tobacco-related beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco influences
Smoking
FastStats – Statistics by Topic
Smoking & Tobacco Use Datasets
National, state, and international surveys.
State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
Interactive application that presents current and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control.

First and Secondhand Smoke
View measures of smoking and secondhand smoke exposure. Includes household smoke, tobacco use (youth), smoking during pregnancy, smoking, non-smoking regulation, and e-cigarette use.
Smoking and Household Characteristics
Explore household characteristics that contribute to health. Includes measures on children in poverty, poverty (ages 65+), food insecurity, smoking, unemployment, per capita income, concentrated disadvantage, and high school completion.
Smoking, Disease and Death
Includes measures on high blood pressure, premature death, diabetes, early death (ages 65-74), smoking, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Smoking, Alcohol, Drugs and Associated Health Behaviors
Unhealthy behaviors are often related to each other because they are done together or one leads to another. Explore more about these behaviors. Includes measures on teen births, insufficient sleep, smoking, physical inactivity, excessive drinking, non-medical drug use (past year), e-cigarette use, high-risk HIV behaviors, fruit and vegetable consumption, and exercise.