Cigarette smoking has long been a target of public health intervention because it substantially contributes to … morbidity and mortality. Individuals in different-sex marriages have lower smoking risk (i.e., prevalence and frequency) than … different-sex cohabiters. However, little is known about the smoking risk of individuals in same-sex cohabiting unions. We …

We document racial/ethnic and nativity differences in U.S. smoking patterns among adolescents and young adults using …-Hispanic white), and further by sex and age, we compare self-reports of lifetime smoking across groups. U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites …, particularly men, report smoking more than individuals in other racial/ethnic/nativity groups. Some groups of young women (e …

self-reported behaviour of pregnant women suggest that there may be differential misclassification related to smoking and …

Smoking has significantly impacted American mortality and remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. No previous … study has systematically examined the contribution of smoking-attributable deaths to mortality trends among blacks or to … and data sources to provide a comprehensive assessment of this contribution. We find that smoking has contributed to the …

We present a new mortality projection methodology that distinguishes smoking- and non-smoking-related mortality and … application of these components. All-cause mortality and non-smoking-related mortality for the years 1970–2006 are projected by … the Lee-Carter and Li-Lee methodologies. Smoking-related mortality is projected according to assumptions on future smoking …

(MLTPA) laws on smoking behavior among young adults. Using data from the confidential version of National Longitudinal Survey … the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … granting legal access to cigarettes and tobacco products at the MLTPA leads to an increase in several indicators of smoking …