ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2011
Tobacco use among firefighters in the central United States.
Article in American journal of industrial medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Association between Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Firefighters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Implementation of the NFFF Stress First Aid Intervention in Career Fire Departments: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
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- Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Exposure Profiles and Their Predictors in a Study of US Volunteer Firefighters.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- Sleep and Substance Use Among Firefighters: Associations with Alcohol, Caffeine, and Nicotine Use.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Muscle, Fat, Bone, and Lungs: Unlocking the Fitness and Health Equation of Firefighters in Porto, Portugal.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of physical activity on cardiovascular health in firefighters: Scoping review.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Review
- A brief descriptive analysis of a pilot study of peer support training and supervision for Texas firefighters.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2024Article
- Firefighting and Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies in the Context of Cancer Hazard Identification.Safety and health at work · 2023Review
- Cancer in female firefighters: The clinicobiological, psychological, and social perspectives.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Norms about Alcohol Use among US Firefighters.Safety and health at work · 2022Article
- Cancer risk among firefighters and police in the Ontario workforce.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Article
- Trends of cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use among US firefighters and law enforcement personnel, 1992-2019.American journal of industrial medicine · 2022Article
- Development and beta test of a smokeless tobacco cessation program for firefighters.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021Article
- Cancer Perceptions Among Smokeless Tobacco Users: A Qualitative Study of US Firefighters.Safety and health at work · 2020Article
- The Effects of Number of Fire Dispatches and Other Situational Factors on Voluntary Exercise Training Among Korean Firefighters: A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The Prevalence and Health Impacts of Frequent Work Discrimination and Harassment among Women Firefighters in the US Fire Service.BioMed research international · 2019Article
- Risk of cancer among firefighters in California, 1988-2007.American journal of industrial medicine · 2015Article
- Tobacco use pattern among a national firefighter cohort.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study provides a comprehensive, population-based examination of tobacco use among both career and volunteer firefighters.
methodsData are from a population-based cohort study of randomly selected career (N = 11) and volunteer (N = 13) departments comprised of 677 male firefighters.
resultsUnadjusted rates of smoking were 13.6% and 17.4% for career and volunteer firefighters, respectively. Smoking rates were less than a comparable occupational group (military personnel) and adult males in the states represented. Smokers were more likely to have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder (OR = 5.8; P = 0.010), have an elevated CAGE alcohol problem score (OR = 2.9; P = 0.040), and more likely to report driving after drinking too much (OR = 4.5; P = 0.020) compared to never-smokers. Large percentages of career (18.4%) and volunteer (16.8%) firefighters used smokeless tobacco. CONCLUSIONS Smoking among firefighters is associated with other significant health and safety risks. High rates of smokeless tobacco use suggest that the fire service is an important target for intervention. Thus, despite strong statements against smoking by the fire service, the need to maintain high levels of health and fitness and relatively low smoking rates, a significant proportion of firefighters continue to use tobacco products.
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