Long-term trends in adolescent and young adult smoking in the United States: metapatterns and implications.

• Autores: David E. Nelson, Paul Mowery, Kat Asman, Linda L Pederson, Patrick M. O'Malley, Ann Malarcher, Edward W Maibach, Terry F Pechacek
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 98, Nº. 5, 2008, págs. 905-915
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Objectives: We sought to describe long-term adolescent and young adult smoking trends and patterns.; Methods: We analyzed adolescent data from Monitoring the Future, 1976 to 2005, and young adult (aged 18-24 years) data from the National Health Interview Survey, 1974 to 2005, overall and in subpopulations to identify trends in current cigarette smoking prevalence.; Results: Five metapatterns emerged: we found (1) a large increase and subsequent decrease in overall smoking over the past 15 years, (2) a steep decline in smoking among Blacks through the early 1990s, (3) a gender gap reversal among older adolescents and young adults who smoked over the past 15 years, (4) similar trends in smoking for most subgroups since the early 1990s, and (5) a large decline in smoking among young adults with less than a high school education.; Conclusions: Long-term patterns for adolescent and young adult cigarette smoking were decidedly nonlinear, and we found evidence of a cohort effect among young adults. Continued strong efforts and a long-term societal commitment to tobacco use prevention are needed, given the unprecedented declines in smoking among most subpopulations since the mid- to late 1990s.;