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Drifting Tobacco Smoke Exposure among Young Adults in Multiunit Housing

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This study evaluated young adults’ exposure to drifting secondhand smoke in San Francisco County housing units using the 2014 Bay Area Young Adult Health Survey (N = 1363). Logistic and geographically weighted regression models were used to determine whether residing in multiunit housing or in areas with greater neighborhood disorder were risk factors for exposure, and how drifting smoke exposure varied spatially within San Francisco County. Residing in buildings with five or more units significantly increased the odds of reporting drifting smoke exposure [OR (3.5 1.3, 9.9)], but neighborhood disorder did not have a significant association in the fully adjusted logistic regression model. At the local level, however, neighborhood disorder was significantly associated with exposure in lower income residential and downtown areas. Multiunit housing was significantly associated with exposure across all neighborhoods.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [National Cancer Institute U01-CA 154240 and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities P60MD006902].

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    Louisa M. Holmes

  2. School of Education and Counseling, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Jasmin D. Llamas

  3. Tobacco Free Project, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Derek Smith

  4. Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Pamela M. Ling

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Holmes, L.M., Llamas, J.D., Smith, D. et al. Drifting Tobacco Smoke Exposure among Young Adults in Multiunit Housing. J Community Health 45, 319–328 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-019-00743-5

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