Phantom smoking among young adult bar patrons

Guillory, Jamie; Lisha, Nadra E.; Lee, Youn Ok; Ling, Pamela M.

doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052821

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“…Recently, the term “phantom smoker” has emerged to characterize young adults who report smoking cigarettes, but do not self-identify as a smoker (Choi et al, 2011; Guillory, Lisha, Lee, & Ling, 2016). Among past 30-day young adult cigarette smokers recruited from 2012–2014 in U.S. bars and nightclubs, phantom smokers were 60% more likely to identify as social smokers than regular smokers (Guillory et al, 2016). Identifying as a social smoker seems to have utility for young adult smokers in dissociating their smoking behavior from the known harms of smoking.…”

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Identifying “social smoking” U.S. young adults using an empirically-driven approach

Villanti

Johnson

Rath

et al. 2017

Addictive Behaviors

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The phenomenon of “social smoking” emerged in the past decade as an important area of research, largely due to its high prevalence in young adults. The purpose of this study was to identify classes of young adult ever smokers based on measures of social and contextual influences on tobacco use. Latent class models were developed using social smoking measures, and not the frequency or quantity of tobacco use. Data come from a national sample of young adult ever smokers aged 18–24 (Truth Initiative Young Adult Cohort Study, N = 1,564). The optimal models identified three latent classes: Class 1 – Nonsmokers (52%); Class 2 – Social smokers (18%); and Class 3 – Smokers (30%). Nearly 60% of the “social smoker” class self-identified as a social smoker, 30% as an ex-smoker/tried smoking, and 12% as a non-smoker. The “social smoker” class was most likely to report using tobacco mainly or only with others. Past 30-day cigarette use was highest in the “smoker” class. Hookah use was highest in the “social smoker” class. Other tobacco and e-cigarette use was similar in the “social smoker” and “smoker” classes. Past 30-day tobacco and e-cigarette use was present for all products in the “non-smoker” class. Young adult social smokers emerge empirically as a sizable, distinct class from other smokers, even without accounting for tobacco use frequency or intensity. The prevalence of hookah use in “social smokers” indicates a group for which the social aspect of tobacco use could drive experimentation and progression to regular use.

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Identifying “social smoking” U.S. young adults using an empirically-driven approach

Villanti

Johnson

Rath

et al. 2017

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“…In addition, young adults frequently do not self-identify as Bsmokers,â nd thus may not tune-in to cessation messages or believe that evidence-based cessation programs fit them (Y. Choi et al 2011;Guillory et al 2016;Staten and Ridner 2007). As a result, young adults have not been the target of prevention, and there have been limited efforts targeting them for cessation.…”

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Preventing Smoking Progression in Young Adults: the Concept of Prevescalation

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As adolescents cross the threshold to young adulthood, they encounter more opportunities to engage in or accelerate previously discouraged or prohibited behaviors. Young adults, therefore, are more apt to initiate cigarette smoking and, more importantly, to accelerate their use if they tried and experimented as an adolescent. Preventing the escalation and entrenchment of smoking in the young adult years is critically important to reducing tobacco's long-term health toll. However, traditional interventions for youth have focused on preventing smoking initiation, and interventions for adults have focused on smoking cessation; both have failed to address the needs of young adults. We introduce the concept of Bprevescalation^to capture the need and opportunity to prevent the escalation of risk behaviors that typically occur during young adulthood, with a focus on the example of cigarette smoking. Prevescalation negates the notion that prevention has failed if tobacco experimentation occurs during adolescence and focuses on understanding and interrupting transitions between experimentation with tobacco products and established tobacco use that largely occur during young adulthood. However, since risk behaviors often co-occur in young people, the core concept of prevescalation may apply to other behaviors that co-occur and become harder to change in later adulthood. We present a new framework for conceptualizing, developing, and evaluating interventions that better fit the unique behavioral, psychosocial, and socio-environmental characteristics of the young adult years. We discuss the need to target this transitional phase, what we know about behavioral pathways and predictors of cigarette smoking, potential intervention considerations, and research challenges.

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“…These findings provide important contributions to the existing literature that has shown that these methods can be used to recruit LGBT young adults in bars and nightclubs in a single market [23] and young adults who are at a higher risk for smoking and alcohol use in a number of markets in the United States [24][25][26][27][28].…”

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“…One strategy that researchers use to recruit young adults involves conducting intercept interviews in social venues (eg, bars, nightclubs) where the target population spends time. A number of researchers have used this strategy to recruit young adults who are at a higher risk for smoking and alcohol use [24][25][26][27][28]. Furthermore, Fallin and colleagues used this strategy to successfully recruit LGBT young adults in bars and nightclubs [23].…”

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“…Researchers are increasingly turning to innovative strategies for recruiting HTR populations versus traditional methods [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. One strategy that researchers use to recruit young adults involves conducting intercept interviews in social venues (eg, bars, nightclubs) where the target population spends time.…”

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Recruiting Hard-to-Reach Populations for Survey Research: Using Facebook and Instagram Advertisements and In-Person Intercept in LGBT Bars and Nightclubs to Recruit LGBT Young Adults (Preprint)

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Wiant²,

Farrelly³

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Background: Tobacco public education campaigns are focusing increasingly on hardtoreach (HTR) populations at higher risk for smoking (eg, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender [LGBT] young adults), prompting campaign content creators and evaluators to develop marketing and participant recruitment strategies to reach HTR populations in virtual and physical spaces where they frequently spend time.

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Phantom smoking among young adult bar patrons

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Identifying “social smoking” U.S. young adults using an empirically-driven approach

Identifying “social smoking” U.S. young adults using an empirically-driven approach

Preventing Smoking Progression in Young Adults: the Concept of Prevescalation

Recruiting Hard-to-Reach Populations for Survey Research: Using Facebook and Instagram Advertisements and In-Person Intercept in LGBT Bars and Nightclubs to Recruit LGBT Young Adults (Preprint)

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