Open AccessCorrelates of Daily Smoking Among Female Arrestees in New York City and Los Angeles, 1997
Author(s) -
Tracy L. Durrah
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.2004.056457
Subject(s) - behavioral risk factor surveillance system , medicine , illicit drug , environmental health , demography , public health , population , gerontology , drug , psychiatry , nursing , sociology
I sought to determine correlates of daily smoking among recently arrested women involved in the Drug Use Forecasting Program (DUF), many of whom are illicit drug users. Also, I compared smoking rates among DUF women, who were illicit drug users, with rates among women taking part in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, who do not have high levels of drug use, to determine if drug use accounts for heavy smoking.