Polytobacco use and multiple-product smoking among a random community sample of African-American adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little is known about polytobacco use among African-American adults. This study is the first to explore this among a random, statewide, community sample of African-American adults.

Setting

Community-based sampling obtained a random, household-probability sample of African-American adults from California, surveyed door to door in randomly selected census tracts statewide.

Participants

Participants were a statewide, random-household sample of N=2118 African-American adults from California who completed a survey on past 30-day smoking of cigarettes, blunts, bidis, kreteks, cigarillos, marijuana and cigars.

Results

Almost half (49.3%) of the African-American cigarette-smokers and 14.9% of the cigarette non-smokers had smoked at least one non-cigarette pr

SUBMITTER: Corral I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3863122 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature