Many tobacco promotional events targeting young adults also encourage alcohol use (Jiang and
Ling, 2011). Qualitative studies of young adult social smokers have
shown that social smokers view smoking and drinking as strongly
paired behaviors (Hoek et al., 2013) and perceive that smoking while
drinking promotes social interactions and keeps one calm when feeling
drunk (Nichter et al., 2010). To our knowledge, no study has examined
the co-use of tobacco and alcohol among social smokers, and how alcohol
use and bar attendance affect social smokers' tobacco use.