Classism and Tobacco Use: How Adolescents’ Experiences with Discrimination Based on Social Class Are Associated with Tobacco Use?

Determining modifiable social factors contributing to risky behaviors among adolescents is an important avenue for research. Accordingly, we examined the association between classism-discrimination based on social class-and tobacco use among 1678 adolescents in the United States. Results indicated that users of tobacco products reported more experiences of classism than non-users.