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ArticleHealth & place2019

Tobacco use in the sexual borderlands: The smoking contexts and practices of bisexual young adults.

Julia McQuoid, Johannes Thrul, Emily Ozer, Danielle Ramo, Pamela M Ling

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Article in Health & place, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Interventions for Sexual and/or Gender Minority-Identified People and the Theories That Underpin Them: A Scoping Review.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Julia McQuoidCenter for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Ave, Suite 366, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States. Electronic address: julia.mcquoid@ucsf.edu.
Johannes ThrulDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkin s University, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States. Electronic address: jthrul@jhu.edu.
Emily OzerSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 529 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States. Electronic address: eozer@berkeley.edu.
Danielle RamoDepartment of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States. Electronic address: danielle.ramo@ucsf.edu.
Pamela M LingCenter for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Ave, Suite 366, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States. Electronic address: pamela.ling@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · USJohns Hopkins University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Countering Young Adult Tobacco Marketing in BarsU01CA154240 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LING, PAMELA MAY · 2011 to 2015
$6.1M
Postdoctoral training in tobacco controlT32CA113710 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LING, PAMELA MAY · 2016 to 2020
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA113710NCI NIH HHS U01 CA154240
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Little is known about why bisexual people use tobacco at higher rates than any other sexual identity group. Non-binary sexualities, such as bisexuality, exist within the socially constructed borderland between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Exploration of the everyday smoking contexts and practices of bisexual individuals may reveal unique mechanisms driving tobacco use. We employed a novel mixed method, integrating real-time, smartphone-administered surveys of (non)smoking situations, location tracking, spatial visualization of participant data, and subsequent map-led interviews. Participants (n = 17; ages 18-26, California) identified as bisexual, pansexual, and/or queer. Most were cisgender women. Survey smoking patterns and situational predictors were similar to other young adults'. However, interviews revealed unique roles of tobacco use in participants' navigation of differently sexualized spaces in everyday life: 1) stepping away from uncomfortable situations related to bisexual identity; 2) facilitating belonging to LGBTQ+ community; and 3) recovering from bisexual identity perception management. Similar studies can examine the place-embedded practices and spatio-temporal patterns of other substance use and other stigmatized identity experiences.

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Sexual and Gender MinoritiesAdolescentAdultCaliforniaData CollectionFemaleHumansMaleSmokingEcological momentary assessmentMixed methodsQualitative GISQueer geographiesSexual minoritiesSubstance use

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PMID30639203
PMCPMC6620170
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