Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 736-745Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.03.009
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- National Cancer Institute [L40DA042452, R01CA203809, R01CA212517, R01DA031160, R01DA036541]
- National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA203809, R01CA212517] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [R01DA031160, R01DA036541] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Introduction: The purpose of this study is to determine the past-year prevalence estimates of any nicotine/tobacco use, cigarette smoking, and DSM-5 tobacco use disorder based on sexual identity among U.S. adults, and to examine potential variations in these estimates by age, race/ethnicity, and sexual identity-attraction concordance/discordance. Methods: The 2012-2013 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions collected data via in-person interviews with a cross-sectional nationally representative sample of non-institutionalized adults (response rate = 60.1%) and analyses for the present study were conducted in 2017. Results: Any past-year nicotine/tobacco use, cigarette smoking, and DSM-5 tobacco use disorder were most prevalent among sexual minority-identified adults compared with heterosexual-identified adults, with notable variations based on sex, age, race/ethnicity, and sexual identity-attraction discordance. Elevated rates of any nicotine/tobacco use, cigarette smoking, and DSM-5 tobacco use disorder among sexual minorities were most prevalent among younger lesbian women and gay men, and all age groups of bisexual men and women. The odds of any nicotine/tobacco use, cigarette smoking, and DSM-5 tobacco use disorder were significantly greater among sexual identity-attraction discordant women and significantly lower among sexual identity-attraction discordant men. Conclusions: These findings provide valuable new information about sexual minority subgroups, such as self-identified bisexual older adults and sexual identity-attraction discordant women, that appear to be at higher risk for adverse smoking-related health consequences as a result of their elevated rates of cigarette smoking. Additional attention is warranted to examine these high-risk subpopulations prospectively and, if the results are replicated with larger samples, this information can be used to target smoking-cessation and lung cancer screening efforts. (C) 2018 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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