Open AccessSmoking-related behavior, beliefs, and social environment of young black women in subsidized public housing in Chicago.
Author(s) -
Clara Manfredi,
Loretta Lacey,
Richard B. Warnecke,
Maarten L. Buis
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.82.2.267
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , black women , public health , smoking cessation , quit smoking , subsidized housing , medicine , public housing , gerontology , environmental health , demography , psychology , political science , gender studies , sociology , nursing , pathology , law
Survey data indicate that young Black female smokers living in public housing are heavier smokers and have weaker motivation to quit, health beliefs and social environment less conducive to cessation, and less knowledge of where to get help to quit than other young Black female smokers in metropolitan Chicago. Compared with White women, the latter, other Black women smoke fewer cigarettes daily and have a stronger desire to quit and more concern about health reasons for quitting, but have a weaker belief in the risk of lung cancer from smoking, greater concern about quitting difficulties, and less knowledge of where to get help to quit. Low education, not race, is associated with higher smoking prevalence and less social pressure to quit or support for quitting.