Sexual and Gender Identity Disparities in Nicotine and Tobacco Use Susceptibility and Prevalence: Disaggregating Emerging Identities Among Adolescents From California, USA.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prior studies report nicotine/tobacco use disparities for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth but have insufficiently characterized SGM identity diversity.

Aims and methods

Adolescents (mean age = 15.2) from 11 high schools in Southern California completed surveys in Fall 2021. Ever use of combustible (cigarettes, cigars, hookah) and noncombustible (e-cigarettes, e-hookah, heated tobacco, smokeless/snus, oral nicotine) nicotine/tobacco (among overall sample, n = 3795) and susceptibility to future initiation of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and flavored non-tobacco oral nicotine (among n = 3331 tobacco-naïve youth) were compared across four gender (male/masculine, female/feminine, transgender male/female, non-binary) and seven sexual (heterosexual, bisexual, panse

SUBMITTER: Harlow AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10803110 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature