Volume 55, Issue 4, April 2021

Among middle-aged and older women, living with a smoker is associated with multiple lifestyle risks involving physical inactivity and unhealthy diet that persist over time.

New FDA graphic cigarette warnings elicit key educational and motivational outcomes relative to text-only warnings among smokers, dual/e-cigarette users, and nonsmokers.

Among 665 young adults who identified as gay or bisexual men and transgender women, we found that cigarette smokers were more likely to use other drugs (alcohol, marijuana, other tobacco products), experience higher levels of depression and anxiety, and report greater financial worries and poorer health, than non-smokers

Sexual minority men who participated in a text messaging intervention were more likely to initiate the HPV vaccine series compared to men in the control group.

Trait reflective pondering predicts increase in depression for individuals who endorse low active coping. However, when individuals endorse passive coping, state reflective pondering may be best described as benign.

Disgust, but not psychological distress, predicts side-effects�particularly, taste- and smell-related changes�in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Informing people of the impact of healthcare overuse on local or national others, and not just themselves, reduces intentions to ask for unnecessary health services.

Thinking that there is a state-level mask mandate is a better predictor for Americans� mask-wearing and social distancing behaviors than actual state mask mandates.

For African American women with high social support, stress was positively associated with greater increases in physical activity, whereas among those with low social support, stress was not significantly associated with physical activity