Open AccessDual Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use From Adolescence to Midlife Among Males in a Midwestern US Community Sample
Author(s) -
Jonathan T. Macy,
Jing Li,
Pengcheng Xun,
Clark C. Presson,
Laurie Chassin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntv070
Subject(s) - smokeless tobacco , tobacco use , environmental health , cigarette smoking , psychological intervention , dual (grammatical number) , medicine , psychology , demography , psychiatry , population , sociology , art , literature
Identifying trajectories of tobacco use is critical for understanding its natural history and targeting interventions, but research on trajectories of smokeless tobacco and dual use of smokeless tobacco and cigarettes is very limited. This study identified tobacco use trajectories from adolescence to midlife and tested correlates of trajectory group membership.