Financial challenges and hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic and tobacco expenditure minimizing strategies among U.S. adult commercial tobacco users.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Commercial tobacco (CT) users employ tobacco expenditure minimizing strategies (TEMS) to manage their CT expenditures. We examined how financial challenges and hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic relate to increases in TEMS use.

Methods

Data from a nationally representative sample of 1,700 U.S. adult recent former and current CT users were collected from an online panel during January-February 2021. Participants reported if they had increased use of eight TEMS to save money on CT since the pandemic, and experienced financial challenges (e.g., losing a job) and hardships (e.g., not having enough money to pay for food). The number of financial hardships experienced was counted (range: 0-6). Weighted multivariable logistic regression models were used to examine

SUBMITTER: Zarei K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9659317 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature