The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS),supported by the US Centers for Disease Prevention andControl and the World Health Organization, was carried outin Moscow in 1999. Russia was one of the first of manycountries to implement this standardized school-based surveyof teenage smoking behavior, attitudes and knowledge. Thisreport presents background information on smoking andtobacco control policies in Russia. It presents simpledescriptive statistics of the GYTS survey data, focusingespecially on the relationship between smoking behavior,cigarette prices, and other factors that can be affected bypolicies intended to reduce smoking, to reduce associateddisease and premature deaths. Multiple regressions explorethe factors that affect the decision to smoke, and thenumber of cigarettes that current smokers report smokingeach month. The estimates suggest that higher prices areassociated with lower smoking prevalence and fewercigarettes smoked each month. Other factors with astatistically significant effect (increasing smoking) are:age, being male, owning cigarette promotional items andhaving been offered free cigarettes by cigarette companyrepresentatives. Seeing counter-advertising was alsostatistically significant and associated with less smoking.
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