AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Mar 29, 2006
Trends in Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults and Adolescents in the United States
David E. Nelson, MD, MPH,
Paul Mowery, MS,
Scott Tomar, DMD, DrPH,
Stephen Marcus, PhD,
Gary Giovino, PhD and
Luhua Zhao, MS
David E. Nelson and Paul Mowery are with the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Scott Tomar is with the University of Florida College of Dentistry, Division of Public Health Services and Research, Gainesville, Fla. Stephen Marcus is with the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Bethesda, Md. Gary Giovino is with the Roswell Park Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY. Luhua Zhao is with the Research Triangle Institute, Atlanta, Ga.

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FIGURE 1 Trends in adult smokeless tobacco use, 19872000.
Source. Data are from the National Health Interview Survey.
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FIGURE 2 Trends in smokeless tobacco use among adolescent males, 19862003.
Source. Data are from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).
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