Beauvais Fred, Thurman Pamela Jumper, Burnside Martha, Plested Barbara
Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1879, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2007;42(4):591-601. doi: 10.1080/10826080701202171.
Tobacco use rates for American Indian adolescents are examined and compared to rates for non-Indian youth. The data are taken from an ongoing surveillance project of substance use among Indian youth and the Monitoring the Future Project for the years 1993 to 2004. Sample sizes are in the range of 14,000 to 17,000 for non-Indian youth and 600 to 2400 for Indian youth. Tobacco use is considerably higher for Indian youth; however, these rates are following the national trends of significant reductions over the past three years. Indian youth manifested a lower perception of harm from regular tobacco use, which may, in part, account for their higher levels of use. Indian females have had slightly higher rates of lifetime and daily smoking rates than males in the past but recent trends indicate a narrowing of this gap.
对美国印第安青少年的烟草使用率进行了调查，并与非印第安青少年的使用率进行了比较。数据取自一项正在进行的关于印第安青少年物质使用的监测项目以及1993年至2004年的“未来监测项目”。非印第安青少年的样本量在14000至17000之间，印第安青少年的样本量在600至2400之间。印第安青少年的烟草使用率要高得多；然而，这些比率正遵循过去三年大幅下降的全国趋势。印第安青少年对经常吸烟危害的认知较低，这可能在一定程度上解释了他们较高的吸烟率。过去，印第安女性的终生吸烟率和每日吸烟率略高于男性，但最近的趋势表明这种差距正在缩小。
