The Special, Toxic Relatnship Between Gays and Smokg

Contents:

• THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG
• TORTURED WH CIGARETT, BLAS FOR BEG GAY
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY
• SMOKG CHARACTERISTICS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS☆

THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG

When we drove to the gay clubs of New York, my cigarett were fiery armor agast some of the strange, uniendly fac that populated those dark to Los Angel the early 2000s meant a huge change: I uldn't smoke si! I still smoked, though, pecially when I drank, and fely when I went dancg Wt Hollywood or Silver only did drkg and smokg go together well -- my md -- was a munal experience at the gay bars.

I don't judge anyone who still smok, but I scerely hope all puffers -- pecially gay on like me who often pick up the hab to f or fd a ctch -- disver a way to qu. The Natnal Adult Tobac Survey recently unvered that tobac prevalence among LGBT people is 50 percent higher than any other many gay people like myself, cigarett nstute one of the most endurg relatnships our liv and, as Stockholm Syndrome, we've nvced ourselv we need this abive partner. Ltle is known about cigarette brand preference (which enurag staed smokg behavr) among lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) smokers, who have higher cigarette smokg rat than heterosexual populatns.

Cigarette smokg is the leadg preventable e of ath the US, and studi show that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populatns have higher cigarette smokg rat than the general populatn (20%–27% vs 14%) (1, 2).

TORTURED WH CIGARETT, BLAS FOR BEG GAY

First, we examed relatnships between sexual orientatn (heterosexual, gay, lbian, and bisexual) and cigarette brand preference a US-based, natnally reprentative sample. Bee rponse optns clud more than 50 brands, we foced our analysis on participants who smoked the cigarette brands ed most monly across the 3 sexual orientatn groups our sample (heterosexual, lbian/gay, bisexual). In our analysis, we refer to mal who intified as nonheterosexual as gay or bisexual and femal who intified as nonheterosexual as lbian/gay or bisexual, bee, although “lbian” is one preferred inty termology among LGB women, LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, + [other sexual and genr mory inti]) advocy groups have signated “gay” as referrg to anyone of any genr who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of the same genr (17).

We found a signifint posive associatn between smokers intifyg as lbian/gay Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanr (vs lbian/gay Whe smokers) for both Marlboro and Newport e (Marlboro, OR = 7.

US adult smokers who intified as lbian/gay or bisexual were more likely to smoke certa monly ed cigarette brands than heterosexuals (Camel, Marlboro, Newport, and Amerin Spir). Gay/lbian smokers had slightly higher odds of Marlboro e than heterosexual smokers, and we found a signifint teractn between bisexual inty and genr for Marlboro e, where bisexual female smokers were more likely to e Marlboro cigarett than bisexual male smokers. A history of overt targeted marketg of Marlboro cigarett to gay men (19) and implic targeted marketg to LGB women (20) suggts a need for further studi of genr-targeted Marlboro advertisements and other ntributors to Marlboro e among LGB smokers.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

We also found associatns between the teractn of both lbian/gay and bisexual Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanr inty and Marlboro e, but the CIs of both fdgs were wi (possibly bee of small cell siz) and should be terpreted wh utn. Genr also played a part Newport e by sexual orientatn, and female lbian/gay and female bisexual smokers were more likely to e Newport than male gay or bisexual smokers.

E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY

Fally, we found a signifint posive associatn between lbian/gay inty and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanr race or ethnicy and Newport e, which may be related to the aforementned targeted marketg efforts. Furthermore, our study monstrat the importance of studyg LGB populatn subgroups, bee we found differenc not only brand e between LGB and heterosexual smokers, but also between lbian/gay and bisexual smokers.

SMOKG CHARACTERISTICS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS☆

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) view differently than non-LGBT: exposure to tobac-related upong, e-cigarette advertisements, and anti-tobac msag on social and tradnal media.

After he had been punched, kicked and stripped of his cloth and jewelry, the 17-year-old man was given a choice: the bat or the attackers, part of a gang of ne young men, were the midst of a night of savage asslts agast three men they spected of beg gay, acrdg to a crimal plat released on the night was out, the victims would be tortured wh burng cigarett, box cutter blas, plunger handl and more, prosecutors charged.

Prosecutors say the men lured a gay 30-year-old man and two 17-year-olds to an empty apartment a four-story hoe on Osborne Place and tortured and beat them, what cy officials have lled the worst antigay attack recent of the men, cludg Mr.