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Book SynopsisLearn how ethnic factors affect tobacco use The addiction to smoking is remarkably resistant to intervention, bringing with it a multitude of health issues among users that can at times co-occur with psychiatric disorders. Ethnicity is increasingly recognized as often playing an important role in the prevalence of tobacco use. Tobacco Use and Ethnicity explores the various factors that impact tobacco use among ethnic groups and provides practical, culturally competent approaches to treatment. Chapters consider multiple variables that lead to use among certain groups, such as Asian American and Pacific Island youth, American Indian and Alaskan Native youth, and low-income African Americans. Tobacco Use and Ethnicity is a unique source that comprehensively reveals the intersection between nicotine and culture, constructing culturally informed and culturally competent approaches to tobacco prevention and cessation treatment. This volume is based on first-hand participa
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Peter L. Myers)
- A Cross-Cultural and Historical Survey of Tobacco Use Among Various Ethnic Groups (Victor Stolberg)
- Black ’N Mild and Carcinogenic: Cigar Smoking Among Inner City Young Adults in Hartford, CT (Merrill Singer, Greg Mirhej, J. Bryan Page, Erica Hastings, Hassan Salaheen, and Giorelly Prado)
- Toward an Explanation of Observed Ethnic Differences in Youths’ Tobacco Use (Rick Sawatzky, Pamela A. Ratner, Joy L. Johnson, and Sheila Marshall)
- Tobacco Use and Dependence in Asian Americans/Pacific Islander Adolescents: A Review of the Literature (Sun S. Kim, Douglas Ziedonis, and Kevin Chen)
- Regular Tobacco Use Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents: An Examination of Protective Mechanisms (Karen K. Chan, Heather S. Lonczak, Patricia D. Mail, Mary E. Larimer, and G. Alan Marlatt)
- Smoking Susceptibility and Attitudes toward Smoking among Chinese and Vietnamese American Adolescents (Ting T. Nguyen, Ginny Goldengorin, Steven E. Gregorich, Stephen J. McPhee, and Celia Patricia Kaplan)
- RESEARCH REPORT
- Association Between Tobacco Use and Lifestyle in a Sample of Lower Income Urban African-Americans in the American South (Doohee Lee, Nannette Turner, and Chantelle Moon)
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
