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February 2005, Vol 95, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 238-240
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.037812

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Perceived Racial/Ethnic Harassment and Tobacco Use Among African American Young Adults

Gary G. Bennett, PhD, Kathleen Yaus Wolin, BS, Elwood L. Robinson, PhD, Sherrye Fowler, MS and Christopher L. Edwards, PhD

Gary G. Bennett and Kathleen Yaus Wolin are with Harvard School of Public Health and the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass. Elwood L. Robinson is with North Carolina Central University, Durham. Sherrye Fowler is with the North Carolina Governor’s Institute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Research Triangle Park. Christopher L. Edwards is with Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Gary G. Bennett, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Center for Community-Based Research, 44 Binney St, SM256, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: gbennett{at}hsph.harvard.edu).

We examined the association between perceived racial/ethnic harassment and tobacco use in 2129 African American college students in North Carolina. Age-adjusted and multivariate analyses evaluated the effect of harassment on daily and less-than-daily tobacco use. Harassed participants were twice as likely to use tobacco daily (odds ratio = 2.01; 95% confidence interval=1.94, 2.08) compared with those with no reported harassment experiences. Experiences of racial/ethnic harassment may contribute to tobacco use behaviors among some African American young adults.




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