Hodge Felicia Schanche, Struthers Roxanne
School of Nursing, University of California at Los Angeles, 700 Tiverton, #5940 Factor Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7102, USA.
J Cult Divers. 2006 Winter;13(4):181-5.
Smoking rates among American Indian youth and adults are the highest in the nation. Funded by the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, the Tobacco Policies Among Plains Indians Project held focus groups on seven reservations during 2001-2002. Members of three Ojibwe reservations in Minnesota, three Sioux reservations in South Dakota, and one Winnebago reservation in Nebraska participated. Areas investigated included smoking knowledge, initiation, attitudes and behaviors, and perceptions of harm. Findings indicate that lenient attitudes toward smoking behaviors, low harm value, and partiality toward the smoking habit and the ritualistic behavior it invokes are long-standing and powerful to overcome. To initiate interventions for persistent smoking, tribes will need to target efforts toward the creation of healthy communities.
美国印第安青年和成年人的吸烟率在全国是最高的。由明尼苏达大学癌症中心资助的“平原印第安人烟草政策项目”在2001年至2002年期间在七个保留地举行了焦点小组讨论。明尼苏达州三个奥吉布瓦保留地、南达科他州三个苏族保留地以及内布拉斯加州一个温尼贝戈保留地的成员参与其中。调查领域包括吸烟知识、开始吸烟情况、态度和行为以及对危害的认知。研究结果表明，对吸烟行为的宽容态度、低危害认知以及对吸烟习惯及其引发的仪式性行为的偏袒是长期存在且难以克服的。为了启动针对持续吸烟问题的干预措施，部落需要致力于创建健康社区。
