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Smokeless
Tobacco Use Among American Indian Women—Southeastern North Carolina
The February 17, 1995, issue of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) contains the
article, "Smokeless Tobacco Use Among American Indian Women - Southeastern North
Carolina."
This study found the following:
- The prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among Lumbee women in North Carolina
in 1991 (23%) was nine times the national average for American Indian women (2.5%) and 38
times that for women in the total U.S. population (0.6%).
- Thirty-five percent of Lumbee women under age 45 who used smokeless tobacco
began using it before age six.
- The high prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among Lumbee women and the very
early age at which they started using it are probably related to the tobacco-based economy
of the county in which they live and cultural factors specific to American Indians.
- A better understanding of parents' attitudes toward smokeless tobacco use
during childhood and the influence of a tobacco-based economy on its initiation and use
should help in the development of culturally and economically acceptable interventions.
Smokeless
Tobacco Use Among American Indian Women -- Southeastern North Carolina
44(06);113-117, February 17, 1995
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