Research shows that single adults have lower educational attainment and are less likely to be employed than adults who are married or cohabiting. In addition, single adults are more likely to reside with parents and less likely to live with a child than partnered adults. Psychological well-being is also lower when individuals are single compared to when they are partnered, either through cohabitation or marriage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
November 2024
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as e-cigarettes, have become increasingly used across the world. To respond to global public health challenges associated with vaping, governments have implemented numerous ENDS policies. This research highlights the patterns, clustering, and transitions in U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study aims to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with cigarette smoking among patients in treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) in France.
Methods: We analyze a nation-wide dataset retrieving information on patients entering treatment for alcohol, opioid and stimulant use disorders between 2010 and 2020. We conduct multilevel Poisson regressions to determine the main factors associated with daily cigarette smoking among all patients who entered treatment for alcohol (n=607122), opioid (n=283381) or stimulant (n=57189) use disorders, and zero-truncated negative-binomial regressions to predict the average number of cigarettes per day.
Introduction: Co-use of tobacco and cannabis has long been an issue for prevention and intervention efforts targeting these substances. Blunt use-cannabis inside a cigar wrapper-has been a consistent mode of cannabis consumption since the 1990s. Since then, both tobacco control and cannabis policies have changed considerably.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adolesc Health
November 2024
Purpose: To identify risk factors for relaxing a strict e-cigarette ban in households with adolescents.
Methods: Youth (ages 12-17) in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study whose parents held a strict vaping ban in 2016 (n = 6,514; 51.5% male) and their parents provided follow-up data on up to four occasions through 2020 on whether the ban was relaxed.