Native College Students and Alternative Tobacco Products

AIHREA researchers recently published our findings from a study to understand how Native college students used and understood alternative tobacco products. We found that, overall, participants viewed electronic nicotine delivery systems and chewing tobacco as primary examples of alternative tobacco products and described a generational divide between alternative and conventional tobacco product use. Alternative tobacco products were not considered suitable for use in traditional contexts suggesting that conventional approaches to the culturally-tailoring of recreational tobacco cessation interventions may be less effective for addressing new these new forms of use.

Read the full text, published in the Journal of American College Health, here.