Beliefs about tobacco use in African Americans.

Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Gandy, Oscar H; Collier, Aliya; Shaker, Lee

Beliefs about tobacco use in African Americans.

Date

2007

Authors

Halbert, Chanita Hughes

Gandy, Oscar H

Collier, Aliya

Shaker, Lee

Citation

Halbert, Chanita Hughes and Gandy, Oscar H and Collier, Aliya and Shaker, Lee (2007) Beliefs about tobacco use in African Americans. Ethnicity & disease, 17 (1). pp. 92-98.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/4spw-eb0b

Abstract

These results suggest that African Americans believe that biological factors such as genes play a limited role in tobacco use behaviors. Sociodemographic factors, rather than tobacco use, are important to beliefs about tobacco use among African Americans.