Open AccessTobacco Use Harm Reduction, Elimination, and Escalation in a Large Military Cohort
Author(s) -
Robert C. Klesges,
Deborah Sherrill-Mittleman,
Jon O. Ebbert,
G. Wayne Talcott,
Margaret DeBon
Publication year - 2010
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.2009.175091
Subject(s) - smokeless tobacco , harm reduction , tobacco harm reduction , medicine , tobacco control , environmental health , smoking cessation , harm , public health , abstinence , tobacco use , psychiatry , psychology , population , social psychology , nursing , pathology
We evaluated changing patterns of tobacco use following a period of forced tobacco abstinence in a US military cohort to determine rates of harm elimination (e.g., tobacco cessation), harm reduction (e.g., from smoking to smokeless tobacco use), and harm escalation (e.g., from smoking to dual use or from smokeless tobacco use to smoking or dual use).