Tuesday, 19 November 2002 - 11:00 AM
Hilton San Francisco Continental Ballroom 6 (475)

D&D-3. Tobacco Use and the LGBT Community: From Knowledge to Action

Francisco Buchting, PhD, Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, University of California Office of the President, francisco.buchting@ucop.edu, Ruth Malone, PhD, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, rmalone@itsa.ucsf.edu, Naphtali Offen, BS, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, naph@itsa.ucsf.edu, Elizabeth A. Smith, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Social & Behavioral Sciences, libbys@itsa.ucsf.edu, Jay P. Paul, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, jpaul@psg.ucsf.edu, Gary Humfleet, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, hac@itsa.ucsf.edu, Gregory Greenwood, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, ggreenwood@psg.ucsf.edu.

Learning Objectives: List the different rates of tobacco use in the LGBT community and demonstrate an understanding of the factors unique to the LGBT that influence success in prevention and cessation efforts. Identify and describe tobacco industry’s marketing strategies in the LGBT community. Apply the above knowledge in planning tobacco control efforts in the LGBT communities.

Abstract: Despite high smoking rates, targeted marketing by tobacco companies and tremendous health disparities, smoking has only recently began to be significantly addressed in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities. The few surveillance studies conducted with LGBT consistently show higher rates of smoking than the general population. Little research has been conducted to understand the unique factors for LGBT related to smoking initiation, prevention and cessation. Panel members will provide the latest surveillance data for LGBT youth and adults, present factors specific to the LGBT community that may assist in prevention and cessation efforts, and discuss the relationships between the tobacco industry and the LGBT community.

Greg Greenwood will report on the prevalence of smoking among LGB in California, and in the U.S. Jay Paul will present factors that lead to cigarette smoking among LGB youth to better understand gay-specific predictors of initiation. Gary Humfleet will explain how HIV-positive gay male smokers differ from HIV-negative gay male smokers on a variety of issues known to influence success in cessation efforts. Ruth Malone and Elizabeth Smith will illustrate how the tobacco companies market to the LGBT community by presenting findings from the tobacco industry documents. Naphtali Offen will discuss how this knowledge can be used at the community level in strengthening and expanding tobacco control efforts in the LGBT community.


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