Racial differences in alcohol and tobacco use in adolescence and mid-adulthood in a community-based sample.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Smoking and alcohol use have been posited as possible contributors to racial health disparities, despite higher smoking and alcohol use among non-Hispanic White youth and young adults compared to Blacks. To further investigate this claim, we aim to assess variation in alcohol and cigarette use across two distinct points of the life course.

Method

Data are from a subset of 559 (279 male, 280 female) self-identified Black and White participants of the Child Health and Development study. Self-report alcohol and cigarette use were collected between age 15-17 and at mean age 50. Logistic regressions were estimated; supplementary analyses adjusted for maternal age, prenatal smoking, household income, childhood SES, and education.

Results

White participants were more

SUBMITTER: Pamplin JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083697 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature