Polytobacco use and multiple-product smoking among a random community sample of African-American adults

Abstract

Objectives:Little is known about polytobacco use among African-American adults. This study is the first to explore this among a random, statewide, community sample of African-American adults.

Marijuana and tobacco use and co-use among African Americans: Results from the 2013, National Survey on Drug Use and Health

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Toxicant exposure from smoking a little cigar: further support for product regulation

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Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and negative affect during tobacco withdrawal in a non-clinical sample of African American smokers

“…First, we excluded individuals who smoked less than 10 cigarettes per day and/or used other non-cigarette tobacco products. Therefore, our findings may not generalize to a significant portion of the African American smoker population, who are light/intermittent smokers (< 10 cigs/day; Pulvers et al, 2014) and/or are concurrent users of other tobacco products such as small cigars (Corral et al, 2013). We also excluded participants who currently used psychiatric medications, which may limit the generalizability of our findings to individuals with OC symptoms being treated with pharmacotherapy (Pittenger et al, 2005).…”