Tobacco Use

Tobacco is one of the most common preventable causes of death. It is estimated that tobacco use kills five million people each year worldwide. Most people use tobacco by smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, but there are also several forms of smokeless tobacco, such as chewing tobacco, moist snuff, or dry snuff. In recent decades an increasing amount of information about tobacco use among immigrant populations and how this behavior changes became available. This information will, among other things, provide information relevant for prevention of future use of Tobacco. Among immigrant populations in “Western countries,” smoking rates vary largely. Most data are available from the USA and some European countries. The US estimates for 2008 show that, compared to 22% of the non-Hispanic Whites and about 21.3% of the adult African Americans, 15.8% of the Hispanics smoke cigarettes. Among Asian populations smoking rates are about 10% although these figures differ largely between several….