ABSTRACT
Objective: Crossing racial lines provides a unique context for understanding racial patterns in smoking. This research explores whether adults whose unions cross racial lines behave more similarly to their own group or their partner's
Design: Using a sample of respondents from the National Health Interview Survey (2001–2011), we compare the likelihood of current smoking and quitting smoking among adults in mixed-race unions to adults in same-race unions.
Results: Adults with different-race partners generally mirror their partner's group; people of color with White partners have a higher likelihood of being current smokers, similar to Whites, while Whites partnered with Asians and Latina/os are, like other Asians and Latino/as, less likely to smoke. There are fewer differences in the likelihood of quitting smoking.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge Christa Mason, Layton Field, and Ellen Whitehead for invaluable research assistance.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
ORCID
Mary Campbell http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6125-191X
Jarron Saint Onge http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0914-4882