Characteristics of current and recent former smokers associated with the use of new potential reduced-exposure tobacco products.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify sociodemographic characteristics associated with having tried a potentialy reduced-exposure tobacco product (PREP) and to compare the smoking and quitting behaviors and attitudes of smokers who have tried a PREP product with non-PREP users.

Methods

Analysis is based on a sample of 43,419 current and recent former smokers from the 2003 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey.

Results

Overall, PREP use is low (2.5%). Current daily and someday only smokers have higher rates of use (2.9% and 2.4%, respectively) compared with former smokers (1.5%). PREP use is higher in southern states and among younger smokers, non-Hispanic Whites, and those with some college education. Smokers who have tried a PREP product are more likely to smoke l

SUBMITTER: Parascandola M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2784491 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature