Who uses cigarette price promotions in the U.S.? examining the combined effect of social identities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tobacco industry offers price promotions to promote cigarette smoking. Several social identities (e.g., women, people with low socioeconomic status) are independently associated with exposure and use of these promotions. We examined how combinations of social identities relate to use of cigarette price promotions.

Methods

We analyzed data from adults who reported current cigarette smoking and purchased their own cigarettes in the 1995-2019 U.S. Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (n = 35,749). We applied a statistical-learning boosting algorithm followed by weighted logistic regression models with 3-way interactions to identify combinations of social identities related to cigarette price promotion use.

Results

This analysis revealed th

SUBMITTER: Choi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11533693 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature