Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults in Kentucky: 1994

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• Personal Author:
  Koetke CA ; Mays JR ; McKnight RH
• Description:
  We assessed the 1994 prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among Kentucky adults > or = 18 years of age. 649 adults, contacted through a statewide random digit dialing procedure, completed an 18-minute telephone survey which included questions on current and former use of chewing tobacco and snuff. Overall, 4.5% of the sample (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.95%-6.15%) claimed to currently use smokeless tobacco. Among males, 9.9% (95% CI = 6.1%-13.3%) claimed to currently use smokeless tobacco. Use of chewing tobacco exceeded snuff use by 2 to 1. No women were current users of either chewing tobacco or snuff. A typical current user was male, was over 45 years of age, did not graduate from high school, and lived in a rural or Appalachian county of Kentucky. Former users comprised 17.3% of the sample; all but one of these were male. By the year 2000, the overall prevalence of smokeless tobacco must be reduced by half if Kentucky is to meet its public health objective that no more than 2% of Kentuckians use smokeless tobacco. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Education Family Farmers Hazardous Substances Health Promotion Neoplasms Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Smoke Smokers Tobacco Products

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-workers Cancer Cancer-rates Families Health-care Health-hazards Health-programs Health-protection Health-standards Oral-cavity Oral-disorders Oral-toxicity Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-practices Safety-programs Smoke-inhalation Smoking Tobacco Tobacco-smoke Tolerance-threshold

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• ISSN:
  0023-0294
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  459-464
• Volume:
  93
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035090
• Citation:
  J Ky Med Assoc 1995 Oct; 93(10):459-464
• Contact Point Address:
  R. H. McKnight, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY 40536-0084
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:97a5987e7881d1bec82793cce53f507eafe2e416e1a9d5059b28f347727a9ecb4b02822549fd7cf052cdcac2d99b53d52fe8b8c6e8f3b435b2dd371bb57a8fa0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187060/cdc_187060_DS1.pdf
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