Associations between Tobacco Use, Surges, and Vaccination Status over Time in the COVID-19 Era.

ABSTRACT: Because COVID-19 is a respiratory and cardiovascular disease, understanding behaviors that impact cardiopulmonary health, such as tobacco use, is particularly important. While early studies suggested no change in prevalence of tobacco use as COVID-19 emerged, pandemic fatigue, shifting levels of COVID-19 transmission, and vaccine availability have all changed since the start of the pandemic. The current study examined whether time, COVID-19 surges, and/or vaccination status were associated with likelihood of daily and non-daily tobacco use over the first 24 months of the pandemic. Data were obtained from electronic health records of healthcare visits (n = 314,787) to four Southern California VA healthcare systems. Multinomial logistic regression analyses indicated that the likelihoo

SUBMITTER: Reed BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9859008 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature