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Smoking, Binge Drinking Should be Treated As Single Health Problem
"These are important findings because they emphasize the need for education and intervention programs that target the co-occurrence of these two health risks," said Brian Daly, assistant professor of public health in the College of Health Professions and Social Work.
The researchers determined rates of smoking and binge drinking through the collection of anonymous survey data from 2,450 African-American, Hispanic and Caucasian students in grades 9-12 at Philadelphia public high schools.
They compiled the students' responses from the 2007 Philadelphia Youth Behavioral Risk Survey (YRBS).
In their study report, they have revealed that the students were asked how many cigarettes they'd had per day over 30 days, and how many days over a 30 day period they'd had 5 or more drinks in a row. Data was broken down by race/ethnicity and gender.
It was found that while Caucasian adolescents were more likely than African-Americans to engage in either binge drinking or smoking, both groups were equally likely to engage in both at the same time.
"In the past 30 years or so, African Americans have traditionally had the lowest instance of smoking and binge drinking. Those low numbers resulted in very few studies which looked at both smoking and binge drinking in a diverse sample; most focused only on instances of these in Caucasian or Hispanic adolescents," said Daly, who presented his research at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting this week.
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