Summary: The California Native Hawaiian and Pacific
Islander Health Behaviors and Attitudes on Tobacco is a report based on the
California Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Tobacco Survey, which
aims to provide estimates on tobacco use, other health behaviors associated
with tobacco such as smoking cessation and exposure to tobacco secondhand smoke
or secondhand vape as well as attitudes regarding tobacco use and tobacco
control policies among surveyed NHPI adults in California. This report also
provides estimates on marijuana use and co-use among surveyed NHPI adults in
California. Estimates presented in this report are disaggregated by NHPI
subgroups, sex, age groups, education level, and regions in California.
Findings: A large proportion of NHPI adults in this
sample use tobacco products with 64.3% of NHPI adults surveyed reporting
current use of tobacco products of any kind. A large proportion of NHPI young
adults (ages 18 to 24) in this sample use tobacco products such as cigarettes,
vaping products, and flavored tobacco products. A majority (52.3%) of current
NPHI smokers in this sample indicated that they were more comfortable receiving
tobbaacco cessation services at health organizations serving NHPI communities than
health organizations that serve the general population. Almost all (92.6%) NHPI
adults with less than a high school diploma in this sample are current smokers
and many face substantial barriers to cessation. A large proportion (67.0%) of
NHPI adults in this sample reported being exposed to tobacco secondhand smoke
(SHS) or secondhand vape (SHV). There was strong agreement (76.6%) among NHPI
adults that the sale of tobacco should be banned to anyone born after 2025.
This report is supported by the California Tobacco Control Program, California Department of Health.