Background: Nicotine use is the greatest modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Despite decades of public health interventions, including tobacco-free policies, nicotine use rates remain unacceptably high in many areas of the United States.
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BACKGROUND: Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking can lead to cancer, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and other serious disease processes. Low socioeconomic populations (i.e. homeless individuals) are more at risk to start smoking at a young age, smok…
This study examined the relationship between the personal and environmental factors of parental and peer tobacco use behaviors, psychological factors of self-esteem, health risk action of experimentation of tobacco use, and different forms of tobacco use and narghile use among Y…
Background: The smoking rate among young Alaska Native adults (ages 19-29) in Southeast Alaska is 70% as compared to the statewide adult smoking rate of 21%, the Alaska Native adult rate of 41%, and the overall young adult rate of 32%. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium…
Problem. The problem was to determine whether a relationship exists between psychological types, as determined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and tobacco use among college students. Procedures. The study was a cross-sectional survey of students from 8 Georgia college and un…