title: Levels of cigarette and alcohol use related to eating-disorder attitudes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine levels of cigarette and alcohol use relative to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in 206 black and white college women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Anonymous, paper-and-pencil, self-report questionnaires were administered.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Frequency of both cigarette and alcohol use were significantly and linearly related to body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness. Regression analyses indicated that negative-affect reduction motivations for use of these substances were more strongly related to eating-disorder attitudes than were levels of use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cigarette and alcohol use, independent of race and other demographic variables, increased along a continuum with eating-disorder attitudes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of South Carolina, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia 29208, USA. mgran1072@aol.com
authors.forename: Michelle L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Granner
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Doris A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Abood
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001828:Body Image; D001835:Body Weight / Q000208:ethnology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D015144:Southeastern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology