{"id":36839,"date":"2014-12-01T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36839"},"modified":"2014-12-01T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:45:13","slug":"smoking-trajectories-among-monoracial-and-biracial-black-adolescents-and-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36839","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Trajectories Among Monoracial and Biracial Black Adolescents and Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smoking Trajectories Among Monoracial and Biracial Black Adolescents and Young Adults<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Journal of Drug Issues<\/a>
\nVolume 45, Number 1<\/a> (January 2015)
\npages 22-37
\nDOI: 10.1177\/0022042614542511<\/a><\/p>\n

Trenette T. Clark<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Social Work
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

Anh B. Nguyen<\/strong><\/a>, Cancer Prevention Fellow
\nScience of Research and Technology Branch (SRTB)
\nBehavioral Research Program (BRP)
\nNational Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n

Emanuel Coman<\/strong>
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

Cigarette-smoking trajectories were assessed among monorace Blacks, Black\u2013American Indians, Black\u2013Asians, Black\u2013Hispanics, and Black\u2013Whites. We used a subsample of nationally representative data obtained from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health<\/a> (Add Health). The sample consisted of adolescents who were in Grades 7 to 12 in 1994, and followed across four waves of data collection into adulthood. Wave 4 data were collected in 2007-2008 when most respondents were between 24 and 32 years old. Respondents could report more than one race\/ethnicity. Poisson\u2019s regression<\/a> was used to analyze the data. We found distinct smoking trajectories among monorace and biracial\/ethnic Blacks, with all groups eventually equaling or surpassing trajectories of Whites. The age of cross-over varied by gender for some subgroups, with Black\u2013American Indian males catching up earlier than Black\u2013American Indian females. Black\u2013White females smoked on more days than monorace Black females until age 26 and also smoked more than Black\u2013White males between ages 11 and 29 years. Black\u2013Hispanic males smoked on more days than Black\u2013Hispanic females from ages 11 to 14. The results of the interaction tests also indicated different smoking trajectories across socioeconomic status (SES) levels among White, Black, and Black\u2013White respondents. Significant heterogeneity was observed regarding smoking trajectories between monorace and biracial\/ethnic Blacks. Knowledge of cigarette-smoking patterns among monorace and biracial\/ethnic Black youth and young adults extends our understanding of the etiology<\/a> of tobacco use and may inform interventions.<\/p>\n

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Smoking Trajectories Among Monoracial and Biracial Black Adolescents and Young Adults Journal of Drug Issues Volume 45, Number 1 (January 2015) pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177\/0022042614542511 Trenette T. Clark, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Anh B. Nguyen, Cancer Prevention Fellow Science of Research and Technology Branch (SRTB) Behavioral Research Program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,4481,20],"tags":[17594,17593,17595,17596,17597,14484,14483],"class_list":["post-36839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-anh-b-nguyen","tag-anh-bao-nguyen","tag-anh-nguyen","tag-emanuel-coman","tag-journal-of-drug-issues","tag-trenette-clark","tag-trenette-t-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}