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At-a-Glance
Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups
African Americans
American Indians and Alaska Natives
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Hispanics
A Report of the Surgeon General
"Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the
United States. We have an enormous opportunity to reduce heart disease, cancer,
stroke, and respiratory disease among members of racial and ethnic minority
groups, who make up a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population."
-David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Surgeon General
Major Conclusions of the Surgeon General's Report
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of disease
No single factor determines patterns of tobacco
and death in each of the four population groups
use among racial/ethnic minority groups; these
studied in this report. African Americans
patterns are the result of complex interactions of
currently bear the greatest health burden.
multiple factors, such as socioeconomic status,
Differences in the magnitude of disease risk are
cultural characteristics, acculturation, stress,
directly related to differences in patterns of
biological elements, targeted advertising, price
smoking
of tobacco products, and varying capacities of
communities to mount effective tobacco control
Tobacco use varies within and among
initiatives.
racial/ethnic minority groups; among adults,
American Indians and Alaska Natives have the
Rigorous surveillance and prevention research
highest prevalence of tobacco use, and African
are needed on the changing cultural,
American and Southeast Asian men also have a
psychosocial, and environmental factors that
high prevalence of smoking. Asian American
influence tobacco use to improve our
and Hispanic women have the lowest prevalence.
understanding of racial/ethnic smoking patterns
and identify strategic tobacco control
Among adolescents, cigarette smoking
opportunities. The capacity of tobacco control
prevalence increased in the 1990s among
efforts to keep pace with patterns of tobacco use
African Americans and Hispanics after several
and cessation depends on timely recognition of
years of substantial decline among adolescents
emerging prevalence and cessation patterns and
of all four racial/ethnic minority groups. This
the resulting development of appropriate
increase is particularly striking among African
community-based programs to address the
American youths, who had the greatest decline
factors involved.
of the four groups during the 1970s and 1980s.
WEALTH
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CANNERS POR DREAR common
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
AND PREVENTION
Office on Smoking and Health
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