title: Up in smoke: vanishing evidence of tobacco disparities in the Institute of Medicine's report on sexual and gender minority health.
abstract: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a groundbreaking report on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health in 2011, finding limited evidence of tobacco disparities. We examined IOM search terms and used 2 systematic reviews to identify 71 articles on LGBT tobacco use. The IOM omitted standard tobacco-related search terms. The report also omitted references to studies on LGBT tobacco use (n = 56), some with rigorous designs. The IOM report may underestimate LGBT tobacco use compared with general population use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. jose.lee@unc.edu
authors.forename: Joseph G L
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Blosnich
authors.forename: Cathy L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Melvin
mesh_terms: D001727:Bisexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology