Richard Miech
Biographic Data
| ID | 346753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Miech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Miech |
| SIGNATURE | MIECH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2812-1109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Trends in use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes among young adults who had smoked in adolescence: 2017–2022
Among young adults who had smoked in adolescence, a 10-point decline in cigarette prevalence from 2017 to 2022 coincided with a 7-point increase in the percentage who deliberately used e-cigarettes to quit combustible cigarettes
Trends in e-cigarette flavour use and demographic correlates among US youth from 2020 to 2023
During 2020-2023, most US youth vaped non-tobacco flavours. Reducing the availability of: (1) fruit/ice-fruit flavoured e-cigarettes might impact most US youth, especially younger teens and (2) menthol-flavoured e-cigarettes might especially impact youth vulnerable to frequent vaping and rural youth
Cannabis reduction among adolescents as spillover from successful tobacco control
Recent, national trends in US adolescent use of menthol and non-menthol cigarettes
Continuing declines in adolescent menthol prevalence indicate that both menthol prevalence and also black/non-black disparities in its use are steadily decreasing. However, these decreases in adolescence will take decades to reach later ages through generational replacement. Efforts to accelerate menthol decreases will require new initiatives to increase cessation among adult menthol users
Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2019: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use
The great decline in adolescent cigarette smoking since 2000: Consequences for drug use among US adolescents
The results support the 'gateway' prediction that declines in cigarette smoking among adolescents pull downward their non-medical use of amphetamines, tranquillisers and opioids. Continuing to reduce adolescent smoking through policy and programmatic prevention efforts should have further positive spillover effects on adolescent drug use
Marijuana Legalization and Marijuana Prevalence Among Adolescents
Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2018: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use
Annual marijuana prevalence rose by a nonsignificant 0.5 percentage points to 23.9% in 2018 based on data from the three grades combined. 2 This follows a significant increase in 2017. Annual prevalence stands at 11%, 28%, and 36% in grades 8, 10, and 12. Daily marijuana prevalence changed little this year, with rates at 1%, 3%, and 6%, respectively. Annual use of any illicit drug, which tends to be driven by marijuana-by far the most prevalent o…
E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking: Results from a 1-year follow-up of a national sample of 12th grade students
These results contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting vaping as a one-way bridge to cigarette smoking among youth. Vaping as a risk factor for future smoking is a strong, scientifically-based rationale for restricting youth access to e-cigarettes
What are kids vaping? Results from a national survey of US adolescents
These results challenge the common assumption that all vaporiser users inhale nicotine. They (a) call into question the designation of vaporisers and e-cigarettes as ENDS ('Electronic Nicotine Delivery System'), (b) suggest that the recent rise in adolescent vaporiser use does not necessarily indicate a nicotine epidemic, and (c) indicate that vaporiser users can be candidates for primary prevention programmes. Finally, the results suggest the im…
Trends in use of marijuana and attitudes toward marijuana among youth before and after decriminalization: The case of California 2007–2013
Nondrinker Mortality Risk in the United States
The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities
This article examines how educational disparities in mortality emerge, grow, decline, and disappear across causes of death in the United States, and how these changes contribute to the enduring association between education and mortality over time. Focusing on adults age 40 to 64 years, we first examine the extent to which educational disparities in mortality persisted from 1989 to 2007. We then test the fundamental cause prediction that educatio…
The Black-White difference in age trajectories of functional health over the life course
The Formation of a Socioeconomic Health Disparity: The Case of Cocaine Use during the 1980s and 1990s
Despite the substantial and prolonged sociological interest in health disparities, much remains unknown about the processes that initiate them. To investigate this topic, we focus on the case study of cocaine use, for which a socioeconomic disparity emerged across all age groups in a short period of time around 1990. We examine whether the newly-formed disparity represents a selective remnant of previous users or, instead, a selective recruitment…
The Resources That Matter: Fundamental Social Causes of Health Disparities and the Challenge of Intelligence
A robust and very persistent association between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) and the onset of life-threatening disease is a prominent concern of medical sociology. The persistence of the association over time and its generality across very different places suggests that no fixed set of intervening risk and protective factors can account for the connection. Instead, fundamental-cause theory views SES-related resources of knowledge, mo…
Maternal education and adolescent drug use: A Longitudinal Analysis of Causation and Selection Over a Generation
Socioeconomic Status and the Adjustment to School: The Role of Self-Regulation during Early Childhood
Richard Miech, Marilyn J. Essex, H. Hill Goldsmith, Socioeconomic Status and the Adjustment to School: The Role of Self-Regulation during Early Childhood, Sociology of Education, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 102-120
The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities
This article examines how educational disparities in mortality emerge, grow, decline, and disappear across causes of death in the United States, and how these changes contribute to the enduring association between education and mortality over time. Focusing on adults age 40 to 64 years, we first examine the extent to which educational disparities in mortality persisted from 1989 to 2007. We then test the fundamental cause prediction that educatio…
The Resources That Matter: Fundamental Social Causes of Health Disparities and the Challenge of Intelligence
A robust and very persistent association between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) and the onset of life-threatening disease is a prominent concern of medical sociology. The persistence of the association over time and its generality across very different places suggests that no fixed set of intervening risk and protective factors can account for the connection. Instead, fundamental-cause theory views SES-related resources of knowledge, mo…
The Black-White difference in age trajectories of functional health over the life course
Socioeconomic Status and the Adjustment to School: The Role of Self-Regulation during Early Childhood
Richard Miech, Marilyn J. Essex, H. Hill Goldsmith, Socioeconomic Status and the Adjustment to School: The Role of Self-Regulation during Early Childhood, Sociology of Education, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 102-120
The Formation of a Socioeconomic Health Disparity: The Case of Cocaine Use during the 1980s and 1990s
Despite the substantial and prolonged sociological interest in health disparities, much remains unknown about the processes that initiate them. To investigate this topic, we focus on the case study of cocaine use, for which a socioeconomic disparity emerged across all age groups in a short period of time around 1990. We examine whether the newly-formed disparity represents a selective remnant of previous users or, instead, a selective recruitment…
Maternal education and adolescent drug use: A Longitudinal Analysis of Causation and Selection Over a Generation
Nondrinker Mortality Risk in the United States
Socioeconomic Status and the Adjustment to School: The Role of Self-Regulation during Early Childhood
Richard Miech, Marilyn J. Essex, H. Hill Goldsmith, Socioeconomic Status and the Adjustment to School: The Role of Self-Regulation during Early Childhood, Sociology of Education, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 102-120
Maternal education and adolescent drug use: A Longitudinal Analysis of Causation and Selection Over a Generation
The Formation of a Socioeconomic Health Disparity: The Case of Cocaine Use during the 1980s and 1990s
Despite the substantial and prolonged sociological interest in health disparities, much remains unknown about the processes that initiate them. To investigate this topic, we focus on the case study of cocaine use, for which a socioeconomic disparity emerged across all age groups in a short period of time around 1990. We examine whether the newly-formed disparity represents a selective remnant of previous users or, instead, a selective recruitment…
The Resources That Matter: Fundamental Social Causes of Health Disparities and the Challenge of Intelligence
A robust and very persistent association between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) and the onset of life-threatening disease is a prominent concern of medical sociology. The persistence of the association over time and its generality across very different places suggests that no fixed set of intervening risk and protective factors can account for the connection. Instead, fundamental-cause theory views SES-related resources of knowledge, mo…
The Black-White difference in age trajectories of functional health over the life course
The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities
This article examines how educational disparities in mortality emerge, grow, decline, and disappear across causes of death in the United States, and how these changes contribute to the enduring association between education and mortality over time. Focusing on adults age 40 to 64 years, we first examine the extent to which educational disparities in mortality persisted from 1989 to 2007. We then test the fundamental cause prediction that educatio…
Nondrinker Mortality Risk in the United States
Trends in use of marijuana and attitudes toward marijuana among youth before and after decriminalization: The case of California 2007–2013
What are kids vaping? Results from a national survey of US adolescents
These results challenge the common assumption that all vaporiser users inhale nicotine. They (a) call into question the designation of vaporisers and e-cigarettes as ENDS ('Electronic Nicotine Delivery System'), (b) suggest that the recent rise in adolescent vaporiser use does not necessarily indicate a nicotine epidemic, and (c) indicate that vaporiser users can be candidates for primary prevention programmes. Finally, the results suggest the im…
E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking: Results from a 1-year follow-up of a national sample of 12th grade students
These results contribute to the growing body of evidence supporting vaping as a one-way bridge to cigarette smoking among youth. Vaping as a risk factor for future smoking is a strong, scientifically-based rationale for restricting youth access to e-cigarettes
Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2018: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use
Annual marijuana prevalence rose by a nonsignificant 0.5 percentage points to 23.9% in 2018 based on data from the three grades combined. 2 This follows a significant increase in 2017. Annual prevalence stands at 11%, 28%, and 36% in grades 8, 10, and 12. Daily marijuana prevalence changed little this year, with rates at 1%, 3%, and 6%, respectively. Annual use of any illicit drug, which tends to be driven by marijuana-by far the most prevalent o…
Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2019: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use
The great decline in adolescent cigarette smoking since 2000: Consequences for drug use among US adolescents
The results support the 'gateway' prediction that declines in cigarette smoking among adolescents pull downward their non-medical use of amphetamines, tranquillisers and opioids. Continuing to reduce adolescent smoking through policy and programmatic prevention efforts should have further positive spillover effects on adolescent drug use
Marijuana Legalization and Marijuana Prevalence Among Adolescents
Recent, national trends in US adolescent use of menthol and non-menthol cigarettes
Continuing declines in adolescent menthol prevalence indicate that both menthol prevalence and also black/non-black disparities in its use are steadily decreasing. However, these decreases in adolescence will take decades to reach later ages through generational replacement. Efforts to accelerate menthol decreases will require new initiatives to increase cessation among adult menthol users
Cannabis reduction among adolescents as spillover from successful tobacco control
Trends in use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes among young adults who had smoked in adolescence: 2017–2022
Among young adults who had smoked in adolescence, a 10-point decline in cigarette prevalence from 2017 to 2022 coincided with a 7-point increase in the percentage who deliberately used e-cigarettes to quit combustible cigarettes
Trends in e-cigarette flavour use and demographic correlates among US youth from 2020 to 2023
During 2020-2023, most US youth vaped non-tobacco flavours. Reducing the availability of: (1) fruit/ice-fruit flavoured e-cigarettes might impact most US youth, especially younger teens and (2) menthol-flavoured e-cigarettes might especially impact youth vulnerable to frequent vaping and rural youth
Medicine (14 works) · Demography (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Cigarette smoking (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)