The need for more nuance in headline adult cigarette smoking prevalence estimates

Sara C Hitchman; Jennifer L Pearson; Andrea C Villanti

doi:10.1111/add.13794

The need for more nuance in headline adult cigarette smoking prevalence estimates

Addiction. 2017 Aug;112(8):1327-1328. doi: 10.1111/add.13794. Epub 2017 Mar 13.

Authors

Sara C Hitchman^{1

2}, Jennifer L Pearson^{3

4}, Andrea C Villanti^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
² UK Centre for Tobacco Studies, Nottingham, UK.
³ Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Truth Initiative, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.

Abstract

Recent changes in the tobacco and nicotine market make it more important than ever to have valid and reliable measures of tobacco and nicotine use that capture population exposure. Due to several factors that can affect smoking prevalence estimates, there is a need for surveillance measures to be harmonized, and for reporting and interpretation to be conducted carefully.

Keywords: Cigarette; United States; measurement; prevalence; smoking; surveys; tobacco.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Cigarette Smoking / epidemiology*
Humans
Newspapers as Topic*
Prevalence
Reproducibility of Results
United States / epidemiology

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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