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Title: If You're Smoking You've Just Got to Have a Drink: Cigarette Smoking by American Women and Interactions with Alcohol Use in a Longitudinal Study
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1. Jennison, Karen M.
Johnson, Kenneth A.
If You're Smoking You've Just Got to Have a Drink: Cigarette Smoking by American Women and Interactions with Alcohol Use in a Longitudinal Study
Presented: Washington, DC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1995
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Addiction; Alcohol Use; Behavior; Behavioral Problems; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Health Factors; Rehabilitation; Substance Use; Women

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To explore whether drinking may be a risk factor for tobacco use as well as a barrier that impedes the reduction of smoking prevalence among women, examined is cigarette smoking and drinking covariance within diverse subgroups of 6,283 young adult women in the general population using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY), Multivariate repeated analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicates that women smokers as a group differ significantly from nonsmokers in higher alcohol consumption patterns, at baseline and over time, with specific convergence in the quantity of drinks ingested per day and the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Although women smokers tend to be drinkers and to drink in greater volume than nonsmokers, as women reach middle age their smoking is more likely to be associated with quantity and less likely with frequency of drinking. Findings suggest that the smoking factor should be addressed in alcohol rehabilitation for women and that the implications of alcohol use be made an explicit part of smoking cessation programs. (Copyright 1995, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
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Jennison, Karen M. and Kenneth A. Johnson. "If You're Smoking You've Just Got to Have a Drink: Cigarette Smoking by American Women and Interactions with Alcohol Use in a Longitudinal Study." Presented: Washington, DC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1995.