Publication year: 2011
Source: Addictive Behaviors, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 August 2011
Michael S., Pollard , Joan S., Tucker , Harold D., Green , David, Kennedy , Myong-Hyun, Go
Research on sexual orientation and substance use has established that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are more likely to smoke than heterosexuals. This analysis furthers the examination of smoking behaviors across sexual orientation groups by describing how same- and opposite-sex romantic attraction, and changes in romantic attraction, are associated with distinct six-year developmental trajectories of smoking. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health dataset is used to test our hypotheses. Multinomial logistic regressions predicting smoking trajectory membership as a function of romantic attraction were separately estimated for men and women. Romantic attraction effects were found only for women. The…
Highlights: ► Six distinct developmental smoking trajectories are identified in adolescence ► Non-heterosexual romantic attraction is a significant risk factor, but only for women ► Change from heterosexual attraction is more predictive than consistent non-heterosexual attraction ► Two mechanisms linking romantic attraction to smoking are suggested: coping and socialization