Smoking Related Information

Hawai‘i Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System

Operator The Hawai‘i Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (HBRFSS) administers an annual telephone health survey of Hawai‘i residents 18 years and older which includes questions about tobacco cessation, prevalence and second hand smoke. Recent improvements to the HBRFSS survey are the use of dual sampling frame (landline and cell phone) and iterative proportional weighting methodology (ranking) as of calendar year 2012. Latest results are for 2015.

Hawai‘i Youth Tobacco Survey

The Hawaii Youth Tobacco Survey (HYTS) is a bi-annual survey of public school students, grades 6-12 that collects information about tobacco use and access, exposure to tobacco messages and secondhand smoke, and knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes regarding tobacco.

Adult Tobacco Survey

The National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS) was created to assess the prevalence of tobacco use, as well as the factors promoting and impeding tobacco use among adults. NATS also establishes a comprehensive framework for evaluating both the national and state-specific tobacco control programs.

NATS was designed as a stratified, national, landline, and cell phone survey of non-institutionalized adults aged 18 years and older residing in the 50 states or D.C. It was developed to yield data representative and comparable at both national and state levels. The sample design also aims to provide national estimates for subgroups defined by gender, age, and race/ethnicity.

2006 Hawai’i Adult Tobacco Survey The 2006 Hawai’i Adult Tobacco Survey (ATS) collected in-depth data on the knowledge and attitudes of Hawai’i adults regarding the use of tobacco products, cessation efforts among smokers, attitudes and exposure towards second-hand smoke (SHS), and overall attitudes regarding smoking and its effects upon smokers and non-smokers.
National ATS, 2003-2007
National ATS, 2009-2010

Women and Smoking Female Not symbol

American Cancer Society; Women and Smoking
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System (PRAMS) is an annual representative survey of women who give birth in Hawai‘i. PRAMS collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences prior to, during, and immediately following pregnancy. Tobacco use is one of the areas covered by PRAMS:
Smokefreewomen Web site created by the Tobacco Control Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the National Cancer Institute
Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. March 2001
Hawaii Perinatal Smoking Quick Facts

Smoke Free Housing

Other Resources

Laws and policies:

Current state and county laws regarding smoking including policies for government agencies

Other Hawai‘i resources:

National resources:

2016 Surgeon General report on e-cigarette use among youth. Full report.
2014 50th anniversary Surgeon General Report on youth and young adult tobacco use.
Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education
Involuntary Smoke Bibliography, this database includes abstracts of approximately 900 key articles regarding involuntary smoking and disease outcomes referenced in the 2006 Surgeon General’s Report: The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke.
PubMed, is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics,
Tobacco.org, daily compilation of tobacco control news in the U.S. and around the world

Handouts/other media

Posters/signs:

No e-cigarette smoking poster and 2-to-a-page format
Quit-line referral poster for health professionals counseling pregnant women,
No direct sales to minors poster for retail staff.
No sales to minors under 21 in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Smoking prohibited by law including e-cigarettes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.