Racial/Ethnic Disparities Across Indicators of Cigarette Smoking in the Era of Increased Tobacco Control, 1992-2019.
Kari-Lyn K SakumaJohn P PiercePebbles FaganFrance T Nguyen-GrozavuEric C LeasKaren MesserMartha M WhiteAmanda S TieuDennis R TrinidadPublished in: Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2021)
The successes in reduced cigarette use uptake and prevalence across time for both California and the rest of the United States were observed largely among non-Hispanic White populations. Although reductions in the number of cigarettes smoked per day are a notable success, particularly among the Californian African Americans, efforts to support quitting across racial/ethnic groups, especially marginalized groups, need to be prioritized.