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Steven S Foldes1, Lawrence C An, Pete Rode
1Center for Prevention, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA. steven.foldes@gmail.com
Objective:
To evaluate the prevalence of smoking among young adults and to describe their characteristics.
Methods:
Data were examined from the Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey, a telephone survey of 8821 residents with a sample of 1205 young adults.
Results:
Prevalence was 39% using the adolescent definition and 32% using the adult definition. Nearly 1 in 5 young adult smokers may be considered a "previously unrecognized smoker" who would not have been identified as a cigarette user according to the standard adult definition.
Conclusions:
Future studies assessing prevalence should use both adolescent and adult measures.
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