Deployment and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Active Duty Service Members in the U.S. Military.

Conclusions: Military deployment was associated with smokeless tobacco use among active service members. However, the influence of military deployment on smokeless tobacco use was not equally strong on all service members. Subjects who never smoked cigarettes, who had no family history of use and who had low perception of harm were the most susceptible subgroups to deployment-related smokeless tobacco use. This study has implications to identify high-risk subgroups to reduce smokeless tobacco use in the U.S. military.
PMID: 30085231 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Military Medicine - August 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research