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Ann Stueve, PhD and Lydia O’Donnell, EdD

The authors are with the Health and Human Development Program, Education Development Center, Inc, Newton, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ann Stueve, PhD, Education Development Center, Inc, 96 Morton St, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10014 (e-mail: astueve{at}edc.org).

We examined smoking and smoking cessation among 538 young inner-city women who had been followed from early adolescence to young adulthood. Results showed that 14.3% of these young women had smoked in middle school, 26.4% had smoked in high school, and 21.9% had smoked at age 19 or 20 years, when many were rearing children, pregnant, or considering pregnancy. Young women who were raising children were more likely than those who were not to currently smoke or to have smoked in the past. Partner violence victimization was an independent risk factor for continued smoking. If improvements in smoking cessation rates are to be achieved, public health efforts must address factors underlying early and continued smoking.