Smokeless tobacco use in a population of young adults.
The current study examined characteristics of smokeless tobacco users in a large population of Air Force recruits. In addition, smokeless tobacco users were compared to non-tobacco users, to cigarette smokers, and to users of both smokeless tobacco and cigarettes. Participants were 32,144 individuals who entered Basic Military Training from August 1995 to August 1996. A 53-item questionnaire assessed demographics, tobacco use history, risk taking, and other health-risk factors. Those who both chewed and smoked scored considerably higher on a number of risk factors than did those who limited their tobacco consumption to either cigarettes or chew. Cigarette smokers in turn tended to score consistently higher on self-reported risk factors than did nontobacco users.
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Lando@EPI.UMN.EDU
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless; D014481:United States