Place-based inequities in cigarette smoking across the USA
- 18 May 2022
- journal article
- letter
- Published by BMJ in Tobacco Control
- Vol. 33 (1) , 135-136
Abstract
PLACES provides model-based estimates of health indicators from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) at census-tract level.2 A census tract is generally smaller than a city, larger than a block group and a fairly permanent subdivision of a county. We analysed the census-tract prevalence estimates of adult (18+ years) self-reported current smoking for all census tracts with available estimates (N=70 338). We also obtained state-level estimates of adult self-reported …Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Mental Health (5T32MH122376)
- Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (28IR-0066, T31IR1584)
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