A latent class analysis of cancer risk behaviors among U.S. college students.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to understand how cancer risk behaviors cluster in U.S. college students and vary by race and ethnicity.

Do state expenditures on tobacco control programs decrease use of tobacco products among college students?

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of state tobacco control program expenditures on individual-level tobacco use behaviors among young adults. Data come from the 1997, 1999 and 2001 waves of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS). Our findings indicate that a higher level of state spending on tobacco control programs in the prior year is associated with a statistically significant increase in the probability that current daily smokers report at least one attempt to quit smoking in the past year.