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Kaari F. Baluja, PhD, Julie Park, MPL and Dowell Myers, PhD

Kaari F. Baluja is with the US Census Bureau, Washington, DC. Julie Park and Dowell Myers are with the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Julie Park, MPL, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, 3518 Trousdale Pkwy, VKC 366, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0041 (e-mail: juliepar{at}usc.edu).

McCarthy and his colleagues raise interesting questions about smoking behavior in other countries. Our research, however, is restricted to the smoking behavior of foreign-born men and women in the United States.

We apologize for any confusion about the meaning of "country of origin." We follow the convention of most immigration research by using country of birth. That should resolve the doubts expressed by the letter writers regarding the treatment of migrants who stop over in, for example, Canada before settling in the United States.

We regret that the tobacco use supplement data from the Current Population Survey prevent us from exploring the use of alternative tobacco products such as bidis or paan. The data in question pertain primarily to cigarette smoking. There may well be cultural differences in what is considered "smoking." This is always a challenge when making cross-cultural comparisons.

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