FIGURE 1.

Five-year trends of age-standardized prevalence of current smoking among adult men in the US general population and in 4 US Asian communities: REACH, 2002–2006.

Note. API = Asian American/Pacific Islander; BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; REACH = Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health. Vietnamese data were pooled for 2 Vietnamese communities in southern California targeted by REACH. Cambodian data were from a Cambodian community in Lowell, MA, targeted by REACH. Asian data were pooled for members of various API ethnic subgroups in King County, WA. General US population data were collected by the BRFSS. Data for Asian men collected by the BRFSS are not shown. Smoking prevalence among BRFSS Asian men was on average 7.4% lower than that among BRFSS US men, but the temporal changes were similar between the 2 groups.