ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2018
Sexual minority youth continue to smoke cigarettes earlier and more often than heterosexuals: Findings from population-based data.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Equitable implementation of lung cancer screening: avoiding its potential to mirror existing inequities among people who use tobacco.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2023Article
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- Sexual minority youth's mental health and substance use: The roles of victimization, cybervictimization, and non-parental adult support.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Cigarette Use and Vaping Among Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Adolescents Assigned Male at Birth: Patterns of Use and Associations with Demographic and Psychosocial Factors.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Perspectives on Cigarette Use, Vaping, and Antitobacco Campaigns Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males and Gender Diverse Youth.LGBT health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAn established body of research documents that sexual minority (i.e., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) populations are at higher risk for several adverse health behaviors and outcomes compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Smoking is one behavior where the gap is especially large, particularly among youth. Researchers have increasingly drawn attention to contextual determinants of health behaviors affecting sexual minority youth. PURPOSE: Although these factors have evolved over time, few scholars have examined time as a contextual factor that affects sexual minority health behaviors or the level of inequality with heterosexual populations. We aimed to fill this gap. PROCEDURES: We used eight years of data from the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey (MYRBS), pooled into four waves, to determine whether gaps between sexual minority and heterosexual youth have widened or narrowed for three different indicators of smoking: having ever smoked, early onset smoking, and daily cigarette smoking in the past 30 days.
resultsWe find that, though rates of smoking for all youth in Massachusetts have declined since the late 1990s, significant disparities remain between sexual minority and heterosexual youth.
conclusionsFindings may suggest that targeted tobacco control programs in Massachusetts are needed; perhaps shifts in social attitudes toward smoking have affected smoking behaviors in diverse segments of society.
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