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8561278
TITLE
Alcohol sensitivity and smoking history in men and women.
ABSTRACT
Many studies have found genetic effects to contribute to alcoholism risk in both men and women. Based on preliminary evidence for shared genetic risk between smoking and drinking problems, a reanalysis of alcohol challenge data on 412 Australian twins was performed to explore the possibility that smoking may diminish or moderate the intoxicating effects of alcohol. We found history of smoking to be strongly associated with self-reported intoxication after alcohol challenge in women (women: r = -0.44 +/- 0.08; men: r = -0.21 +/- 0.08), comparable with self-reported average weekly consumption of alcohol, which was more strongly associated in men (women: r = -0.37 +/- 0.07; men: r = -0.54 +/- 0.06). Structural equation model-fitting indicated a strong association between heavy drinking and smoking, but the association between smoking and postalcohol intoxication remained even when the effects of heavy drinking were controlled for. These results prompt the question of whether smoking cigarettes directly influences the transition from moderate to excessive use of alcohol by diminishing feelings of alcohol intoxication.
DATE PUBLISHED
1995 Oct
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1995/10/01
medline 1995/10/01 00:01
entrez 1995/10/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Madden PA Madden P A PA Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
Heath AC Heath A C AC
Starmer GA Starmer G A GA
Whitfield JB Whitfield J B JB
Martin NG Martin N G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 19
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
ISOABBREVIATION: Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res.
YEAR: 1995
MONTH: Oct
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0145-6008
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Alcohol Clin Exp Res
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0145-6008
NLMUNIQUEID: 7707242
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA07535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
DA07261 NIDA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Alcoholic Intoxication psychology
Alcoholism psychology
Australia psychology
Female psychology
Genotype psychology
Humans psychology
Male psychology
Motivation psychology
Risk Factors psychology
Smoking psychology
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CHEMICALS
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