About the Project
This project involves the analysis of representative population-level data from California and the United States to examine individual, social, and policy factors and their relation to ethnic disparities in smoking behaviors and tobacco control.
Investigator
Dennis Trinidad, PhD
Principal Investigator
Email address: dennis.trinidad@cgu.edu
Ongoing Activities
Publication development is currently in progress.
Findings
Trinidad DR, Gilpin EA, Lee L, Pierce JP. Do the majority of U.S. Asian and African American smokers start as adults? American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2004;26(2):156-58. PUB MED.
Trinidad DR, Gilpin EA, Lee L, Pierce JP. Has there been a delay in the age of regular smoking onset among African Americans? Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2004;28(3):152-57. PUB MED.
Trinidad DR, Gilpin EA, Pierce JP. Smoke-free school policies, compliance and support: California 1993-2002. Health Education Research. 2005;20(4): 466-75. PUB MED.
Trinidad DR, Gilpin EA, White MM, Pierce JP. Why does African American smoking prevalence in California remain higher than for Non-Hispanic Whites? Ethnicity and Disease. 2005;15(3):505-11. PUB MED.
Trinidad DR, Gilpin EA, Messer K, Pierce JP. Trends in smoking among Hispanic women in California: Relationship to English language use. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2006;31(3):257-60. PUB MED.
Messer K, Pierce JP, Zhu SH, Hartman A, Trinidad DR, Al-Delaimy WK, Gilpin EA. The California Tobacco Control Program’s effect on adult smokers: (1) Smoking cessation. Tobacco Control. 2007;16:85-90. PUB MED.
Al-Delaimy WK, Pierce JP, Messer K, White MM, Trinidad DR, Gilpin EA. The California Tobacco Control Program’s effect on adult smokers: (2) Daily cigarette consumption levels. Tobacco Control. 2007;16:91-95. PUB MED.
Trinidad DR, Messer K, Gilpin EA, Al-Delaimy, White MM, Pierce JP. The California Tobacco Control Program’s effect on adult smokers: (3) Similar effects for African Americans across states. Tobacco Control. 2007;16:96-100. PUB MED.
West JH, Romero RA, Trinidad DR. Adolescent receptivity to tobacco marketing across race/ethnic groups in California. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;33(2):121-23. PUB MED.
Messer K, Trinidad DR, Al-Delaimy WK, Pierce JP. Smoking cessation rates in the United States: a comparison of young adult and older smokers. American Journal of Public Health. 2008;98(2):317-22. PUB MED.
Trinidad DR, Pérez-Stable EJ, Emery SL, White MM, Grana RA, Messer K. Intermittent and light smoking across race/ethnic groups in the United States. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 2009;11(2):203-10. PUB MED.
Acknowledgements
Funding for Ethnic Disparities in Smoking was provided by Award Number 28XS017 from the National Cancer Institute, 12KT-0158 from the California TRDRP, and 01-163780 from the California Department of Health. The content displayed is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the above organizations.