Journal of Environmental and Public Health Tobacco Use Patterns Guest Editors: Judy Kruger, Joanna Cohen, Cristine Delnevo, Lorraine Greaves, and Vaughan Rees Tobacco Use Patterns Journal of Environmental and Public Health Tobacco Use Patterns Guest Editors: Judy Kruger, Joanna Cohen, Cristine Delnevo, Lorraine Greaves, and Vaughan Rees Copyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Journal of Environmental and Public Health.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Habibul Ahsan, USA Linda M. Gerber, USA Oladele A. Ogunseitan, USA Suminori Akiba, Japan Karen Glanz, USA Ike S. Okosun, USA I. Al-Khatib, Palestinian Authority Richard M. Grimes, USA Jill P. Pell, UK Stuart A. Batterman, USA H. R. Guo, Taiwan Mynepalli K. C. Sridhar, Nigeria Brian Buckley, USA Ivo Iavicoli, Italy David Strogatz, USA David O. Carpenter, USA Chunrong Jia, USA Evelyn O. Talbott, USA J. C. Chow, USA Pauline E. Jolly, USA Edward Trapido, USA DevraL.Davis,USA Joseph Lau, Hong Kong David Vlahov, USA Walid El Ansari, UK Jong-Tae Lee, Republic of Korea Chit Ming Wong, Hong Kong Brenda Eskenazi, USA Stephen Leeder, Australia Benny Zee, Hong Kong PamR.Factor-Litvak,USA Gary M. Marsh, USA T. Zheng, USA Alastair Fischer, UK Anthony B. Zwi, Australia Contents Tobacco Use Patterns, Timothy A. McAfee and Judy Kruger Volume 2012, Article ID 564390, 2 pages Impact of Tobacco Control Interventions on Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Prevalence: A Systematic Review, Lisa M. Wilson, Erika Avila Tang, Geetanjali Chander, Heidi E. Hutton, Olaide A. Odelola, Jessica L. Elf, Brandy M. Heckman-Stoddard, Eric B. Bass, Emily A. Little, Elisabeth B. Haberl, and Benjamin J. Apelberg Volume 2012, Article ID 961724, 36 pages Exploring the Next Frontier for Tobacco Control: Nondaily Smoking among New York City Adults, Rachel Sacks, Micaela H. Coady, Ijeoma G. Mbamalu, Michael Johns, and Susan M. Kansagra Volume 2012, Article ID 145861, 10 pages Pilot Study Results from a Brief Intervention to Create Smoke-Free Homes,MichelleC.Kegler, Cam Escoffery, Lucja Bundy, Carla J. Berg, Regine Haardorfer,¨ Debbie Yembra, and Gillian Schauer Volume 2012, Article ID 951426, 9 pages Heterogeneity in Past Year Cigarette Smoking Quit Attempts among Latinos,DanielA.Gundersen, Sandra E. Echeverria, M. Jane Lewis, Gary A. Giovino, Pamela Ohman-Strickland, and Cristine D. Delnevo Volume 2012, Article ID 378165, 9 pages Concurrent Use of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco among US Males and Females, Nasir Mushtaq, Mary B. Williams, and Laura A. Beebe Volume 2012, Article ID 984561, 11 pages Patterns of Tobacco Use and Dual Use in US Young Adults: The Missing Link between Youth Prevention and Adult Cessation, Jessica M. Rath, Andrea C. Villanti, David B. Abrams, and Donna M. Vallone Volume 2012, Article ID 679134, 9 pages Trends in Roll-Your-Own Smoking: Findings from the ITC Four-Country Survey (20022008), David Young, Hua-Hie Yong, Ron Borland, Lion Shahab, David Hammond, K. Michael Cummings, and Nick Wilson Volume 2012, Article ID 406283, 7 pages Use of Emerging Tobacco Products in the United States, Robert McMillen, Jeomi Maduka, and Jonathan Winickoff Volume 2012, Article ID 989474, 8 pages The Impact of State Preemption of Local Smoking Restrictions on Public Health Protections and Changes in Social Norms, Paul D. Mowery, Steve Babb, Robin Hobart, Cindy Tworek, and Allison MacNeil Volume 2012, Article ID 632629, 8 pages Adult Current Smoking: Differences in Definitions and Prevalence EstimatesNHIS and NSDUH, 2008, Heather Ryan, Angela Trosclair, and Joe Gfroerer Volume 2012, Article ID 918368, 11 pages The 2009 US Federal Cigarette Tax Increase and Quitline Utilization in 16 States, Terry Bush, Susan Zbikowski, Lisa Mahoney, Mona Deprey, Paul D. Mowery, and Brooke Magnusson Volume 2012, Article ID 314740, 9 pages Cigarette Design Features in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries, Rosalie V. Caruso and Richard J. O’Connor Volume 2012, Article ID 269576, 6 pages Reshuffling and Relocating: The Gendered and Income-Related Differential Effects of Restricting Smoking Locations, Natalie Hemsing, Lorraine Greaves, Nancy Poole, and Joan Bottorff Volume 2012, Article ID 907832, 12 pages Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Trial of an Online Smoking Cessation Program Targeting Young Adult Nondaily Smokers, Carla J. Berg and Gillian L. Schauer Volume 2012, Article ID 248541, 8 pages Concurrent Use of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco in Minnesota, Raymond G. Boyle, Ann W. St. Claire, Ann M. Kinney, Joanne D’Silva, and Charles Carusi Volume 2012, Article ID 493109, 6 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2012, Article ID 564390, 2 pages doi:10.1155/2012/564390 Editorial Tobacco Use Patterns Timothy A. McAfee1 and Judy Kruger2 1 Office on Smoking and Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, MS-K50, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA 2 Epidemiology Branch, Office on Smoking and Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, MS-K50, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Judy Kruger, [email protected] Received 11 October 2012; Accepted 11 October 2012 Copyright © 2012 T. A. McAfee and J. Kruger. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The use of combustible tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, their use impacting the use of combustible tobacco products? cigars, pipe, bidis, kreteks, and hookah) among adults Which tobacco control policies and interventions work for remains widespread around the world. Unless dramatic different populations and use patterns? Few health risks progress is made diminishing the initiation and increasing have received as much attention from researchers and policy cessation of combustible tobacco product use, a billion makers as the use of tobacco products. Articles recently preventable deaths will occur in the 21st century [1]. These published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health deaths will be accompanied by unimaginable human suffer- can inform health policy decisions in several ways: by ing and unaffordable economic loss from both preventable providing information on specific populations who use these healthcare expenditures and loss of productivity from early products, by targeting interventions to products and users, death and disease. Health risks not only impact the smoker, and by identifying and characterizing emerging products but also hundreds of millions of individuals who inhale developed and marketed by the tobacco industry. Scientific secondhand smoke from combustible tobacco products. research, surveillance, and evaluation are valuable tools for In addition to the risks associated with smoking tobacco informing health policy decisions because they can identify products, there are important concerns associated with the the introduction of new products, offer insight as to the use of noncombustible tobacco products (e.g., chew, dip, prevalence of use of those products, and provide information snus, Gutka, and Ikmik). Concerns include both direct health on the effectiveness of specific interventions and tobacco effects from high-toxicant products, particularly in Southern control policy. Asia that account for the majority of global noncombustible In the United States, 15.8% of high school students [6] use and the impact of dual use of noncombustible products and 19.3% of adults smoke cigarettes [7]. Attention to the with smoked tobacco products [2, 3]. This is a pattern being marketing of new tobacco products and combinations of seen in youth, young adults [4, 5], and adults in the United use of these products is essential to ending the tobacco States (as in the paper of R. McMillen et al. “Use of emerging epidemic. Current tobacco use trend indicators may provide tobacco products in the United States”), potentially increasing insufficient information as the tobacco industry innovates its initiation and prolonging smoking. products and strategies. For example, a primary indicator of In order to successfully tackle the immense challenges progress in the tobacco epidemic has been the prevalence ahead, it is critical that public health workers and others of cigarette smoking and cigarette consumption. However, committed to eradicating the harm caused by the tobacco because of differences in taxation between cigarettes and epidemic have a full understanding of what is actually other combustible products and lack of FDA authority to happening. Questions need to be answered such as: How regulate flavoring and other product characteristics of cigars are tobacco use patterns evolving? How are changes in the and pipe tobacco, consumption and prevalence of use of design of tobacco products impacting health outcomes? How cigars and pipe tobacco (used in roll-your-own cigarettes) are emerging tobacco products being marketed? and, How is is increasing dramatically [8, 9]. An over-estimation of 2 Journal of Environmental and Public Health progress in tobacco control, particularly among youth and Conflict of Interests young adults, would result if we do not pay appropriate attention to increases in use of these other tobacco products. There is no conflicts of interests. Another example highlighted in this