Health Care Utilization of Menthol and Non-menthol Cigarette Smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

To study the association between health care utilization and menthol cigarette use and whether the association differed between African American (AA) and non-AA smokers.

Methods

We analyzed the three most recent 2005, 2010, and 2015 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplements. After incorporating propensity score weights adjusting for observed differences between menthol and non-menthol users, we estimated Zero-Inflated Poisson models on hospital nights, emergency department visits, doctor visits, and home visits as a function of menthol use status and other covariates separately for current cigarette smokers and recent quitters (former smokers quitting cigarette smoking ≤ 4 years).

Results

Although current menthol smokers smoked fewer cig

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789940 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature