Epidemiology and Correlates of Daily Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Among Young Adults in the United States
Mei-Chen Hu, PhD,
Mark Davies, MPH and
Denise B. Kandel, PhD
Mei-Chen Hu is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Mark Davies is with the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health. Denise B. Kandel is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Denise B. Kandel, PhD, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 20, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: dbk2{at}columbia.edu).
Objectives. We describe the epidemiology of smoking behaviorsin a national young adult sample and identify common and uniquedemographic, social, and psychological correlates of daily smokingand lifetime and current nicotine dependence by race/ethnicity.
Methods. Data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of AdolescentHealth, wave III. Dependence was measured by the Revised FagerströmTest for Nicotine Dependence. Logistic regressions were estimated.
Results. Hispanic ethnicity, low education, parental and peersmoking, novelty seeking, early age of smoking onset, and pleasurableinitial smoking experiences are significantly correlated withdaily smoking and lifetime nicotine dependence. Depressive symptomsare uniquely associated with lifetime and current dependence.Few factors are highly associated with current dependence. Initialsensitivity to smoking has a significantly greater impact ondaily smoking than on dependence. Correlates of smoking behaviorsare mostly common across racial/ethnic groups, although parentaland peer smoking are significant for Whites and Hispanics butnot for African Americans.
Conclusions. There are more common than unique correlates ofeach smoking stage and across racial/ethnic groups. Primaryprevention and interventions addressing the factors tested couldbe uniform for most chronic smokers irrespective of dependencestatus and race/ethnicity.
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