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A Secondary Analysis of Smoking Among Rural and Urban Youth Using the MTF Data Set
Author(s) -
Sarvela Paul D.,
Cronk Christine E.,
Isberner Fred R.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1997.tb07178.x
Subject(s) - demography , rural area , psychological intervention , medicine , white (mutation) , cigarette smoking , environmental health , black female , race (biology) , tobacco use , urban area , geography , population , gender studies , sociology , biochemistry , chemistry , economy , pathology , psychiatry , economics , gene
This paper compares rural and urban youth cigarette‐smoking behavior using the Monitoring the Future data set, a national, probability‐based, multi‐stage sample design. Cigarette smoking was examined by region, race, and gender over time. Results indicated that rural White males smoked more ofen (30‐day prevalence of 34%) than any other group. Urban Black males smoked the least (10%). Urban White females smoked more (30‐day prevalence of 33%) than urban Black females (7%). In general, rural and urban Whites reported smoking at significantly higher rates than rural and urban Blacks. Smoking rates declined steadily for both rural and urban Black females and urban Black males over the study period. These data document distinctive patterns of tobacco use among the nation's youth, which can be used by program planners for specific targeted interventions.