Why have tobacco control policies stalled? Using genetic moderation to examine policy impacts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research has shown that tobacco control policies have helped produce the dramatic decline in use over the decades following the 1964 surgeon general's report. However, prevalence rates have stagnated during the past two decades in the US, even with large tobacco taxes and expansions of clean air laws. The observed differences in tobacco control policy effectiveness and why policies do not help all smokers are largely unexplained.

Objective

The aim of this study was to determine the importance of genetics in explaining response to tobacco taxation policy by testing the potential of gene-policy interaction in determining adult tobacco use.

Methods

A moderated regression analysis framework was used to test interactive effects between genotype and tobacco polic

SUBMITTER: Fletcher JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3515624 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature