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- The article examines how educational level influences the likelihood of continuing to smoke among a group of 1,354 smokers in the Dutch GLOBE study, focusing on data collected in 1991 and reassessed after 6.5 years.
- It finds that lower educated individuals are significantly more likely to keep smoking, with an odds ratio of 2.09, and highlights factors such as poor health and earlier smoking initiation as key reasons for this educational disparity.
- Other factors, including chronic illness, perceived control, neuroticism, and emotional support, also play a role in understanding why education level affects smoking behavior, suggesting important considerations for public health interventions and policies.
Article Abstract
This article describes the effect of educational level on the decision to continue smoking among 1,354 initially smoking participants (age > or = 20 years) in the Dutch GLOBE study. The effect of education on continued smoking was explained from baseline information (1991) on smoking characteristics, individual characteristics, and environmental factors. Smoking status was reassessed after 6.5 years. Lower educated smokers more often continued smoking (odds ratio 2.09). Poor perceived health and earlier smoking initiation in lower educated groups were main predictors of educational differences in smoking maintenance. Educational differences in chronic illness, perceived control, neuroticism, and emotional support also contributed to the explanation of educational differences in continued smoking. These results have important implications for intervention programs and policy.
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