Assessing the Overlap between Tobacco and Marijuana: Trends in Patterns of Co-Use of Tobacco and Marijuana in Adults from 2003-2012

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Gillian L. Schauer, Carla J. Berg, Michelle C. Kegler, Dennis M. Donovan, Michael
Windle are the authors of this study and they are involved in Department of Behavioral Sciences
and Health Education, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, United
States. They are also member of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington,
1107 NE 45th Street, Seattle, WA 98105, United States.
Purpose of the article
The purpose of this article is to found out the importance of the potential impact on
tobacco use of US adults on the society. Along with adults the increase consumptions of
Marijuana and tobacco poses a serious threat to the youth and the young adults in United States.
The major purpose of the article is to find out the rate of the co-users of Marijuana and the
tobacco mostly among the U.S adults by going through the historical trends (Schauer et al.,
2015). The article mainly aims to find out the increase or decrease in the rate of the tobacco users
from the 2003 – 2012. The article finds out the impact of the condition after legalizing marijuana
among the US adults.
The objectives of this study is to find out the increase rate of the Marijuana and tobacco
among the US adults and the aftereffects of the legalization of Marijuana on the society. The
research question are as follows:
1. What is the impact of the legalization of Marijuana on the US adults?
2. How much is the increase rate of the consumptions of Marijuana on the US adults?
3. How the co-use of Marijuana and tobacco are related to each other and their impact on
the US society?

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Methodology
The study is comprised of determining the impact of the increased use of Marijuana and
tobacco on the US society.
For the purposes of gaining more informations, the researchers have organized a National
survey based on the latest studies in this field. The National survey based upon the Drug
utilization and health involved 378,459 adults. This survey followed the concept of annual,
household survey and the cross sectional survey (Schauer et al., 2015).
This study assessed the collected data from 2003 to 2012 that were mostly used for
computing the demographic as well as the overall trends of co-using and the trends based on race
and sex. This study is based upon the imputation-revised variables, which were made available
publicly like the part of the NSDUH data. This study depend upon the data analysis that is
conducted in SAS-callable SUDAAN. This study also assessed the trends of using tobacco and
Marijuana among the tobacco users and is followed by the concurrent usage of both the tobacco
and marijuana based on the 30days. Because of the questions of NSDUH, the concurrent usage
of both the tobacco and marijuana has been used on the past 30 days. This study measures the
impact of the co-use of Marijuana and tobacco in the past 30 days.
This study is mostly based on the previous month’s illicit substances that was explained
for one or more days for the non-medicinal uses of the products like tobacco, heroin, cocaine and
marijuana in the past 30 days (Schauer et al., 2015).
Findings and conclusion
The author draws light on the impact of the co-use of Marijuana and Tobacco in past 30
days for finding the correlations between Marijuana and Tobacco among the US adults. This
study founded out that is from the year 2011 to 2012 around 5.2% of the participants those are