Smoking and Intention to Quit Among a Large Sample of Black Sexual and Gender Minorities

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to more completely quantify smoking and intention to quit from a sample of sexual and gender minority (SGM) Black individuals (N = 639) through analysis of data collected at Pride festivals and online. Frequencies described demographic characteristics; chi-square analyses were used to compare tobacco-related variables. Black SGM smokers were more likely to be trying to quit smoking than White SGM smokers. However, Black SGM individuals were less likely than White SGM individuals to become former smokers. The results of this study indicate that smoking behaviors may be heavily influenced by race after accounting for SGM status.

KEYWORDS:

• African American
• black
• LGBT
• sexual minority
• smoking
• cessation

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Funding

This work was supported by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health: [Grant Number 123-4567]; The Warren Foundation: [Grant Numbers 190914, 220914].