Inclusion Criteria

- INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Patients:

In order to be included in this study, patients with lung cancer must meet inclusion
criteria at 2 steps: (1) initial screening and written consent to be contacted by
telephone, and (2) provision of verbal consent at the time of telephone contact to
complete the survey.

Step 1a: In order to be approached about the study, patients must be (1) at least 18 years
of age, (2) diagnosed with lung cancer at any stage (Stages Ia-IV), (3) approved for
contact by their oncologist, and (4) identified by the recruiter or identified in medical
records as Black.

Step 1b: In order to provide consent for contact for the telephone survey, patients must
self-identify as AA/Black and must have been born in the U.S. Also, patients must be
willing to give permission to contact at least one family member or friend considered as
close as family who is a current cigarette smoker between the ages of 18 and 55 in order
to provide consent.

Step 2: At the point of the patient survey, all patients will be asked their
race/ethnicity. All patients who self-identify as AA/Black as defined by this research
will be administered the patient survey.

Family:

Family members must self-identify as AA and be between the ages of 18 and 55 to be
eligible for the study. Family also must meet the following inclusion criteria to be
classified as either a current smoker (defined below) or a never smoker (defined below).
These criteria for current smoker and never smoker are based on standard criteria used in
smoking research.

Current Smoker: to be included as a smoker , the family member must report having smoked
at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, and smoked 7 or more cigarettes in the past 7
days at the time of the family member survey.

Never Smokers: to be included as a never smoker , a family member must report no to
having smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Former smokers (i.e., family who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime but
smoked fewer than 7 cigarettes in the past 7 days) because previous research shows
consistently that these individuals hold attitudes and beliefs more similar to those of
current smokers than never smokers.

Patients who describe themselves as AA or Black but were not born in the U.S. will be
excluded from participation.