Introduction to the YRBSS

Essential Question:
What are the trends in health-risk behaviors, obesity, and asthma among youth and young adults in the U.S. and Rhode Island?

This data story provides an introduction to the indicators tracked in the school-based YRBS survey, which is conducted every two years by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and local health authorities.

Tobacco Use

 
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Rhode Island has among the lowest teen smoking rates in the country.

This bar chart displays the percentage of high school students in each state who reported that they had smoked cigarettes on at least 1 day during the past 30 days. Each bar represents a U.S. state or Washington D.C. The bars are sorted alphabetically by each state's abbreviation. Rhode Island is the green bar. An estimated 1 in 5 (19.3%) Rhode Island students smoked in the month before the 2003 survey. Using the time slider, you can see the estimate drops to just 8% in 2013.

Click here to view tabulated data and confidence intervals.

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