Smoking is among the most important risk factors for population health and premature mortality. Smoking trends for … Germany indicate that smoking has been spreading according to the assumptions of diffusion theory. This paper presents … empirical evidence for smoking diffusion in Germany. We focus on educational differences as well as on differences between East …

degree to which four behavioral risk factors – smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, and heavy drinking – are associated … 1998 to 2008. Results indicate that the odds of both smoking and physical inactivity are higher among persons with lower …. These findings suggest that within the U.S. elderly population, behavioral risks such as smoking and physical inactivity …

Despite South Africa's history of violent political conflict, and the link between stressful experiences and smoking in … the literature, no public health study has examined South Africans' experiences of human rights violations and smoking …), this analysis examined the association between respondent smoking status and both human rights violations experienced by …

Previous studies have shown that smoking prevalence is higher in deprived areas than in affluent areas. We aimed to … determine whether smoking initiation or continuation contributes most to inequalities in current smoking, and in which … current smoking, initiation and continuation in urban areas, in subgroups defined by gender, generation and educational level …

smoking across various specifications. Other findings largely support the literature on cigarette demand — price effects are …

) to estimate the impact of the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) laws on alcohol consumption, smoking, and marijuana use … to those from the restricted sample. However, the effect of the MLDA on smoking and marijuana use is smaller and often …

Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic … implications, because smoking on screen stimulates adolescents to start smoking,2,3 accounting for an estimated 52% of adolescent … smoking initiation. Equally important, researchers have observed a dose-response relationship between teens’ exposure to on …

attention of policy makers, the medical and public health communities, and the general public to the high smoking rates and … somewhat unique smoking patterns among young adults in Minnesota. The unsettled nature of young adult smoking patterns means … that there are points at which the community can intervene to prevent the steady escalation of smoking that often occurs …