title: High Cigarette and Poly-Tobacco Use Among Workers in a Dusty Industry: New Jersey Quarry Workers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Tobacco use is high among US extraction and construction workers, who can also incur occupational dust exposure. Information on different types of tobacco use among quarry/mine workers is sparse.
  
  
  METHODS
  During mandated training sessions, New Jersey quarry workers were surveyed about their tobacco use. Prevalence was calculated for single and multiple tobacco use by demographic and workplace characteristics; logistic regression was used to assess associations with smoking.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two hundred forty (97.1%) workers completed surveys. Among respondents, 41.7% [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 35.4 to 48.3] currently used any tobacco product of whom 28.1% smoked cigarettes. In multivariate analysis, positive associations with smoking included working as a contractor versus mine employee (odds ratio 2.32, 95% CI 1.01 to 5.36) and a usual job title of maintenance (odds ratio 2.02, 95% CI 0.87 to 4.94).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Industry-specific information may be helpful in developing targeted tobacco-cessation programs.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway (Dr Graber); Consumer Environment and Occupational Health Service, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton (Worthington); Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago (Almberg); Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway (Dr Meng); Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado, Denver (Dr Rose); Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago (Dr Cohen).
authors.forename: Judith M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Graber
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Worthington
authors.forename: Kirsten S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Almberg
authors.forename: Qingyu
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Cecile S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004391:Dust; D019652:Extraction and Processing Industry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008906:Mining / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D062789:Tobacco Products / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D004391:Dust