title: Smoking initiation after marriage and parenting among Black and White women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the hypothesis that Black-White differences in smoking initiation after transitions into marriage and/or parenting is associated with racial disparities in quitting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cox models were used on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, a cohort of women surveyed from 1968-2003.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Black women (58%) were more likely than white women (40%) to initiate after marriage and/or parenting. Adjustment for these differences did not reduce disparities in quitting (HR 0.53, CI 0.30-0.95). Only after adjustment for sociodemographics were disparities reduced (HR 0.67, HR 0.36-1.22).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Other factors associated with smoking initiation among young adult black women (ie, limited economic opportunities, racial discrimination) should be examined for their influence on quitting.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT, USA. azure.thompson@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Azure B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008393:Marriage; D016487:Parenting; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012907:Smoking / Q000208:ethnology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult