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examined the association between racial resentment and smoking in a national sample of non-Hispanic white, black, and Hispanic … respondents. Data come from the 2012 American National Election Study, which contained two measures of smoking. The results of … ordinal logistic regression models indicate a positive association between racial resentment and smoking among non …
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This study investigates the evolution of educational disparities in smoking uptake across cohorts for men and women in … logistic regressions and a relative measure of education are used to model smoking histories until age 34. The following … the United States, as opposed to a gradient across categories in France. Those differences in smoking disparities across …
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Many unhealthy behaviors develop during adolescence, and these behaviors can have fundamental consequences for health and mortality in adulthood. Social network structure and the degree of homophily in a network affect how health behaviors and innovations are spread. However, the degree of...
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is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over … relative to the extant literature. Our proxy predicts smoking participation of second-generation British immigrants but not …
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theoretical framework for smoking among Korean female adolescents. All of the social factors at the three levels, including … parental supervision, attachment to friends, and peer smoking prevalence, were found to influence tobacco use among Korean … female adolescents. Stigma on the distal level and attitude towards smoking on the proximal level were significant …
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This study analyzes effects of changes in risk perceptions of smoking's health harms on actual and attempted quits and …'s lung cancer diagnosis. We use proximity to a lung cancer neighbor as an exogenous determinant of individual's smoking risk … smoking's harms, which in turn affects decisions about continued smoking and intentions to quit. Our study findings offer …
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how potential exposure to smoking cessation advertisements varies with socio-economic status and estimates the impact of … this advertising on smoking cessation behaviour. Possible extensions to and implications for NZ are also explored. …
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It has been hypothesized that the rising obesity rates in many countries are an unintended consequence of anti-smoking … policies. However, evidence of a causal effect of smoking on body weight is mixed. Using a large nationally representative …) and on the probability of being overweight and obese. We instrument smoking variable using cigarette prices and group …
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This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …
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positive wage effect of about the same size.The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …
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