Building on our tobacco and marijuana prevention efforts with young Black men, the Center for Health Equity Research was awarded a second grant from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program for the proposed study, Is marijuana the new menthol? Can marijuana use among young Black men serve as a hook for nicotine addiction?
The 2-year Pilot Research Award starting in July 2022, will use a mixed methods approach to explore nicotine exposure resulting from the mixture of tobacco and marijuana, which is typical of certain marijuana use methods such as blunt smoking, and assess the levels of awareness of this risk among marijuana-using young Black men.
