What Topics Are Covered on the TUS-CPS Questionnaire?
Although the TUS has changed slightly between 1992 and 2003, it has generally contained about 40 items covering: • cigarette smoking prevalence, • smoking history, • current and past cigarette consumption, • cigarette smoking quit attempts and intentions to quit, • medical and dental advice to quit smoking, • cigar, pipe, chewing tobacco, and snuff use, • workplace smoking policies, • smoking rules in the home, • attitudes toward smoking in public places, • opinions about the degree of youth access to tobacco in the community (1992 – 2002), and • attitudes toward advertising and promotion of tobacco (1992 – 2002). The 2000 questionnaire is an abbreviated version of the TUS-CPS and consists of several questions measuring basic tobacco use prevalence (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco, and snuff). In 2001-02, a Core TUS questionnaire was fielded, using mostly the same instrument as that administered in 1998-99. For a list of the few differences, see the footnotes to the 2001-02
