Why are smoking rates so high among American Indian women? What contributes to the relatively low smoking prevalence among Hispanic women and Asian/Pacific Islander women? What can help keep them from smoking at a higher rate?
What positive influences contributed to the vast majority of black teenage girls resisting smoking throughout the 1990s, in stark contrast to the relatively high smoking prevalence among white girls during the same period?
What has kept smoking prevalence relatively stagnant among women? What has contributed to the sharp increases in prevalence among teenage girls?
Tobacco control policies are known to be effective in reducing smoking, and smoking prevalence tends to decline most where these policies are strongest.
Ongoing monitoring of tobacco industry efforts to target women in this country and abroad is necessary both to understand what influences women to smoke and to design effective counter-marketing campaigns.
It is important to determine if gender-tailored interventions increase the effectiveness of smoking prevention and cessation methods and to document any gender differences in the effectiveness of pharmacologic cessation treatments.
Which tobacco prevention and cessation interventions are most effective for specific subgroups of girls and women, especially those at highest risk for tobacco use? What components are most effective for all?
Research designed to reduce disparities in smoking prevalence across all subgroups of the female population deserves high priority.
Source: Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—2001 |
