Open AccessPerceived Racial/Ethnic Harassment and Tobacco Use Among African American Young Adults
Author(s) -
Gary G. Bennett,
Kathleen Y. Wolin,
Elwood Robinson,
Sherrye Fowler,
Christopher L. Edwards
Publication year - 2005
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.2004.037812
Subject(s) - harassment , ethnic group , demography , tobacco use , medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , odds , african american , gerontology , environmental health , logistic regression , political science , population , sociology , ethnology , nursing , law
We examined the association between perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use in 2129 African American college students in North Carolina. Age-adjusted and multivariate analyses evaluated the effect of harassment on daily and less-than-daily tobacco use. Harassed participants were twice as likely to use tobacco daily (odds ratio = 2.01; 95% confidence interval=1.94, 2.08) compared with those with no reported harassment experiences. Experiences of racial/ethnic harassment may contribute to tobacco use behaviors among some African American young adults.