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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2016

Historical Influences on Contemporary Tobacco Use by Northern Plains and Southwestern American Indians.

Stephen J Kunitz

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Article in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Smoking Cessation Interventions in Indigenous North Americans: A Meta-Narrative Systematic Review.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  10. Association between maternal e-cigarette use during pregnancy and low gestational weight gain.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2023
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  14. Genetics of Smoking Behaviors in American Indians.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2020
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  17. Social Determinants of American Indian Nutritional Health.Current developments in nutrition · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stephen J KunitzStephen J. Kunitz is with the Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are great differences in smoking- and tobacco-related mortality between American Indians on the Northern Plains and those in the Southwest that are best explained by (1) ecological differences between the two regions, including the relative inaccessibility and aridity of the Southwest and the lack of buffalo, and (2) differences between French and Spanish Indian relations policies. The consequence was the disruption of inter- and intratribal relations on the Northern Plains, where as a response to disruption the calumet (pipe) ceremony became widespread, whereas it did not in the Southwest. Tobacco was, thus, integrated into social relationships with religious sanctions on the Northern Plains, which increased the acceptability of commercial cigarettes in the 20th century. Smoking is, therefore, more deeply embedded in religious practices and social relationships on the Northern Plains than in the Southwest.

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Ceremonial BehaviorFemaleHistory, 20th CenturyHumansIndians, North AmericanMaleSmokingTobacco UseUnited States

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PMID26691134
PMCPMC4815564

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