Examining Arrest and Cigarette Smoking in Emerging Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite prior studies, transitions in smoking patterns are not fully understood. Getting arrested may alter an individual's smoking pattern through processes proscribed by the criminological labeling theory. This study examined how arrest during emerging adulthood altered smoking behavior during subsequent years and whether there were differential effects by race/ethnicity and gender.

Methods

We analyzed 15 waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Multinomial logistic regressions were performed using Stata software version 14.

Results

For both genders, arrested black men and women had the most distinct smoking transitions (both increases and decreases) as compared with their non-arrested counterparts. Among men, particularly black

SUBMITTER: Hassett-Walker C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005980 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature