Characterizing and identifying "hard-core" smokers: implications for further reducing smoking prevalence | Zendy

Sherry Emery | Zendy; E A Gilpin | Zendy; Christopher F. Ake | Zendy; A. J. Farkas | Zendy; John P. Pierce | Zendy

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Characterizing and identifying "hard-core" smokers: implications for further reducing smoking prevalence

Author(s) -

Sherry Emery,

E A Gilpin,

Christopher F. Ake,

A. J. Farkas,

John P. Pierce

Publication year - 2000

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.90.3.387

Subject(s) - tobacco control , hard core , medicine , smoking prevalence , smoking cessation , demography , environmental health , population , smoking prevention , core (optical fiber) , public health , gerontology , statistical physics , physics , nursing , pathology , sociology , materials science , composite material

Some smokers may never quit. Depending on how many of these "hard-core" smokers exist, tobacco control efforts could reach the limits of a minimum achievable smoking prevalence. We defined the hard core as heavy smokers with weak quitting histories who expect never to quit smoking. We compared them with other smokers and analyzed whether they represent a meaningful barrier to further reducing smoking prevalence.

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