The Drug Affinity of Young People in the Federal Republic of Germany 2008

Consumption of alcohol, cigarettes and shishas (water pipes). Drug experience and drug use. Campaign perceptions. Computer gaming.

Topics: 1. Sufficient leisure time; enough leisure time activities in the place of residence; life satisfaction; self-assessment of health status; extent of health awareness; frequency of sporting activities in the last three months; membership in a sport club or Frequency of active participation in club sports; membership in other clubs; confidants for personal problems; reference person (partner, friend, parents, siblings, etc.); size of circle of friends; membership in a fixed clique; frequency of activities with friends in the last three months; frequency of visits to private parties, restaurants, pubs or cafés, discos, techno clubs, raves or other techno events.

2. Alcohol consumption: information on frequency, occasion and place of alcohol consumption (when going out with friends in a pub, bar or disco or at a private party, at family celebrations, at the sports club, at meals); detailed recording of frequency of consumption and quantity consumed of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine or sparkling wine, pure schnapps (e.g. grain, whiskey, spirits, etc.). (e.g. Korn, whiskey, vodka, brandy, liqueur, e.g. Baileys), alcoholic mixed drinks (e.g. cola with rum, cola with whiskey, cocktails, etc.); ready-mixed beverages (e.g. coke with rum, coke with whiskey, cocktails, etc.). (e.g. cola with rum, cola with whiskey, cocktails, etc.); ready-mixed drinks based on beer and wine or spirits; total number of days with alcohol consumption in the last 30 days and number of days on which 5 or more glasses of alcohol were drunk; frequency of binge drinking; age at first binge drinking; time of last binge drinking; age at first binge drinking; assessment of health risk from binge drinking and from more than five glasses of alcohol; motives for alcohol consumption (scale: Relaxation, enjoyment, good mood, relieves boredom, health-promoting in moderation, helps when one is depressed or wants to get out of oneself); difficulties in escaping peer pressure when drinking alcohol; estimated proportion of friends and acquaintances who consume alcoholic drinks or mixed drinks.

3. Smoking: age at smoking initiation; self-assessment as a constant smoker, occasional smoker or non-smoker; preferred tobacco products; extent of previous cigarette use (more than 100, up to 100 cigarettes or never smoked); age at first cigarette; Number of days in the last month with at least one cigarette; ever smoked daily for more than a month; age at start of daily smoking; number of years with daily tobacco use; average number of cigarettes smoked per day; type of cigarettes (pre-packaged or roll-your-own or cigarettes); duration of abstinence from cigarettes; number of cigarettes smoked last and type of cigarette; perception of health warnings on cigarette and tobacco packets; places for purchasing cigarettes; attitude towards tobacco consumption, motives for smoking (scale: Getting through difficult situations, calming down, taste, infectious when being with others, improving concentration, feeling good, sympathetic effect, keeps slim, hard to say no when offered cigarettes, fun when smoking with friends, helps cheer up when in a bad mood, boosts self-confidence, recognition among friends, feeling of freedom and independence, dependence, seeming more grown-up, helps when feeling down or irritable); Estimated proportion of smokers in the circle of friends and acquaintances; estimation of health risk from smoking; certainty in estimation of health risk from smoking; estimation of health risk from passive smoking and certainty in estimation of health risk from passive smoking; frequency of staying in rooms where people smoke.

Non-smokers were asked: occasional future smoking is imaginable; expected reaction of friends to a possible start as a smoker.
Smokers were asked: intention to quit smoking; intention to quit smoking in the next six months or 30 days; attempts to quit smoking; expected reaction of friends to possible quitting.

4. Hookah, shisha: awareness of hookah or shisha; hookah smoked; age at first use; number of hookahs or shisha smoked; hookah smoked in the last 12 months; when hookah was last smoked; number of days in the last month that hookah was smoked; type of tobacco used in the past or currently (e.g. fruit-flavoured, herb-flavoured or spice-flavoured tobacco, unflavoured tobacco, other types of tobacco or no tobacco used); substitute for hookah tobacco; smoked hookah at least once over a period of three months; regular use of hookah over a period of three months; other types of tobacco or no tobacco used. other types of tobacco or no tobacco used); name of other types of tobacco used; substitute for tobacco in hookah; smoked hookah at least once over a period of three months; regular use of hookah over a period of at least three months; age at start of regular hookah use; change in use compared to start of use; duration of use for one hookah in minutes; number of hookahs smoked at one smoking occasion; cost of hookah smoking in the last month; places where hookah is smoked (pubs or cafés, discos, shisha bars, outdoors or at home); smoking alone or with others; mainly alone or with others; estimated proportion of waterpipe smokers among friends and acquaintances; assessment of health risk from waterpipe or shisha smoking; certainty of assessment of health risk from waterpipe smoking; comparison of harmfulness of cigarette smoking and waterpipe smoking and reasons for this assessment; evaluation of statements: waterpipe smoking is not addictive, water filters the harmful substances out of waterpipe smoke, smoke from waterpipes does not contain tar.

5. Drugs, drug experience and drug use: estimated proportion of drug users among friends and acquaintances; familiarity with selected drugs (marijuana/hashish, ecstasy, amphetamines, stimulants (speed), LSD, cocaine, crack, heroin, psychoactive plants e.g. ´magic mushrooms´ and snuff). ´Magic mushrooms´ and sniffing substances) and offer of these drugs by third parties; drugs already tried in the past; age at first hashish use; frequency of hashish use so far and in the last twelve months; number of days with hashish use in the last month; use of a water pipe for hashish use; use of water pipe exclusively for hashish use; for all other drugs used so far was asked: Age at first use of these drugs, frequency of use so far and in the last twelve months, as well as the respective number of days with drug use in the last month; type of drug (or intoxicant) offered for the first time; first drug offer accepted or rejected; reasons for rejection; advice against drug use by friends; propensity to use the individual types of drugs; possibility of obtaining hashish or marijuana within 24 hours and places of procurement; availability of drugs at home or abroad as well as country of drug acquisition; general willingness to use drugs (non-users); attitude towards drugs (scale: Self-awareness, expansion of consciousness, forgetting everyday problems, feelings of happiness, relaxation, overcoming inhibitions, fun).

6. Campaign perception: knowledge of the legal situation regarding the punishability of hashish possession; knowledge of the age of children and adolescents for the legal sale of spirits, beer or wine and tobacco products; assessment of the law on smoking from 18; assessment of the smoking ban in discotheques and pubs; perception of non-smoking campaigns (television commercials, cinema commercials, advertisements in magazines, radio commercials, posters, brochures); non-smoking brochures received from a teacher, from parents, from friends, from a health organisation or health authority or the like; obtaining information on the subject of non-smoking on the Internet; awareness of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA); awareness of the slogans ´Kinder stark machen´, ´Na Toll´ as well as ´Rauchfrei´; reception type of the campaign slogan ´Rauchfrei´; visit to the website ´drugcom.de´.

7. Computer games: number of computers in the household; internet use outside the home; frequency of computer games and duration of playing (number of hours per day); own computer gaming behaviour: Forgetting anger by playing computer games, forgetting important things by playing computer games, feeling of excessive computer game playing, quarrelling with friends or family by excessive computer game playing; thinking about exciting game after game end.

Demography: age (year and month of birth); gender; country of birth of the respondent and his/her parents; nationality of the respondent and his/her parents (migration background); length of residence of the respondent in Germany; language spoken at home; current occupation; attendance at a general or vocational school (student); smoking permission at the workplace; smoking rules for trainees or students at the school: Anywhere in the school yard, only in smoking areas or general smoking ban in the school yard; Smoking ban inside the school building; Smoking ban around the school; Smoking permission for teachers in the school yard, corridors, staff room, smoking room resp. general smoking ban for teachers; smoking permission for students in the university building; type of school currently attended; grade level; type of education; type of university; intended school-leaving qualification; current housing situation; other persons in the dwelling; household size; number of smokers in the household; number of persons in the household aged 12 to 25; steady girlfriend or boyfriend; employment (full-time, part-time, hourly); current occupational position; respective job characteristics of salaried employees, civil servants and workers; highest school-leaving qualification; vocational training qualification; current job, highest school-leaving qualification and highest vocational training qualification of mother and father; second job; mobile phone ownership; net monthly income (open and grouped); number of landline connections.

Additionally coded were: survey period (start and end); survey year; respondent ID; survey area east/west, federal state; BIK regions, municipality size; presence of third parties during the interview; weighting factor.