Open AccessA Persistent Disparity: Smoking in Rural Sexual and Gender Minorities
Author(s) -
Keisa Bennett,
Jane A. McElroy,
Andrew O. Johnson,
Niki Munk,
Kevin D. Everett
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lgbt health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.416
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2325-8306
pISSN - 2325-8292
DOI - 10.1089/lgbt.2014.0032
Subject(s) - sexual minority , demography , gender disparity , medicine , sexual orientation , geography , psychology , sociology , social psychology
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) smoke cigarettes at higher rates than the general population. Historically, research in SGM health issues was conducted in urban populations and recent population-based studies seldom have sufficient SGM participants to distinguish urban from rural. Given that rural populations also tend to have a smoking disparity, and that many SGM live in rural areas, it is vitally important to understand the intersection of rural residence, SGM identity, and smoking. This study analyzes the patterns of smoking in urban and rural SGM in a large sample.