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X-WR-CALNAME:Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Nikita Kute 
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DESCRIPTION:Title: Exploration of Tobacco Use Behaviors Amid Societal or Po
 licy Changes and Emerging Tobacco Products in the United States \n\nConcen
 tration: Epidemiology \n\nPhD Chair: Dr. Jidong Huang\; Co-Chair: Dr. Scot
 t Weaver \n\nAbstract:  \n\nOver the past two decades\, even with the sign
 ificant tobacco control efforts undertaken in the United States\, tobacco 
 use remains the leading preventable cause of death. This three-paper disse
 rtation contributes to the broader understanding of the complex tobacco us
 e behaviors and the factors associated with them in consideration of the C
 OVID-19 pandemic\, cannabis legalization policies as well as the increasin
 g popularity of e-cigarettes in the United States. The first paper reports
  results from quantitative survey data from a national probability online 
 sample of 1460 US adults\, and qualitative data from an online focus group
  study of 61 adults from Atlanta\, GA\, US. The study found significant di
 fferences in tobacco purchasing behaviors between exclusive and dual users
  of cigarettes and e-cigarettes as well as identified risk perceptions\, r
 ising prices of tobacco products and access to tobacco product as factors 
 driving the changes in tobacco purchasing behaviors during COVID-19 pandem
 ic. With the rapidly changing cannabis policies in the US\, the second pap
 er reports the findings from a systematic review to understand the impact 
 of such policies on the tobacco use behaviors of adolescents and young adu
 lts. The findings suggest a lower likelihood of tobacco use in states with
  cannabis legalization as compared to states with no cannabis legalization
 . The review also highlights the limitations in the existing literature th
 at may affect the accurate interpretation of the findings. Overall\, this 
 paper informs state\, local\, or federal policymakers regarding the relati
 onship between state cannabis legalization and tobacco use among adolescen
 ts and young adults in the US and guides future research to develop robust
  findings. The third paper examines the transitions between cigarette and 
 e-cigarette use behaviors over three months\, among adult smokers followin
 g their past-month initiation or re-initiation of e-cigarettes. The study 
 found a higher likelihood of continuing the same behavior\, followed by th
 e likelihood of transitioning towards exclusive cigarette use from predomi
 nant cigarette use and towards exclusive e-cigarette use from predominant 
 e-cigarette use among dual users.  The findings from this paper informs po
 licymakers and researchers to develop targeted and timely tobacco control 
 policies and highlights importance of interventions for smoking cessation 
 during early experimentation period of e-cigarette use.
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