Crossover Trends in Current Cigarette Smoking Between Racial and Ethnic Groups of US Adolescents Aged 12–19 Years Old, 1999–2018

Differences among factors associated with tobacco product use among Black and White adolescents: A cross-sectional analysis of wave one of the PATH study 2013–2014

“…education and/or income), a well-established protective factor against White adolescent tobacco use, does not equally protect Black adolescents from tobacco use 17 - 20 . Moreover, recent findings indicate that Black adolescents have not shown the same overall decline in adolescent tobacco smoking from 1999 to 2018 21 . Beginning in the period 2011–2014, a trend emerged whereby older Black adolescents began to show an increase in tobacco use prevalence rates while White adolescents continued to show a downward trend.…”

“…Beginning in the period 2011–2014, a trend emerged whereby older Black adolescents began to show an increase in tobacco use prevalence rates while White adolescents continued to show a downward trend. Evidence suggests that race-specific and/or sociocultural factors rather than socioeconomic factors or policies are responsible for these differences, but exactly what those factors are remains unclear 21 . While systematic reviews have shown that multicomponent tobacco use prevention programs delivered in different settings (e.g.…”

“…Understanding variations and differences in the factors associated with tobacco product use among Black and White adolescents is an important step in the identification of intervention targets that might be particularly effective among Black adolescents and a first step in the development of culturally tailored prevention strategies. Culturally tailored tobacco use prevention strategies might be especially important for Black adolescents because current approaches do not appear to benefit Black adolescents equally 21 .…”