Using Demographics to Predict Smoking Behavior: Large Sample Evidence from an Emerging Market

Prinsloo, Melanie; Tudhope, Lynne; Pitt, Leyland; Campbell, Colin

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“…Research in the USA, for example, has linked greater religiosity with lower levels of smoking among both adults (Whooley et al 2002; Garcia et al 2013; Hayward et al 2016; Bowie et al 2017) and younger people (Alexander et al 2016; Nonnemaker et al 2006; Amey et al 1996; Wallace and Forman 1998). Elsewhere similar conclusions have been drawn for young people in Central America and the Dominican Republic (Chen et al 2004), Hungary (Kovacs et al 2011), Switzerland (Becker et al 2015), Iran (Ameri et al 2016) and Jordan (Alzyoud et al 2015), for adults in Brazil (Martinez et al 2017), mainland China (Wang et al 2015; Wang and Jang 2016), Zambia and Malawi (Pampel 2005) and South Africa (Prinsloo et al 2008), and for pregnant women in San Luis, Brazil (Barbosa et al 2015). Analogously, adults in South Korea have been found to be more likely to quit smoking if they are religious (Myung et al 2012).…”

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Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

2017

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While factors affecting smoking are well documented, the role of religion has received little attention. This national study aims to assess the extent to which religious affiliation is associated with current-smoking and ever-smoking, controlling for age, sex, ethnicity and socio-economic status. Variations between adult and youth populations are examined using secondary analysis of individual-level data from 5 years of the Health Survey for England for adult (aged[20, n = 39,837) and youth (aged 16-20, n = 2355) samples. Crude prevalence statistics are contrasted with binary logistic models for current-smoking and eversmoking in the adult and youth samples. Analyses suggest that Muslims smoke substantially less than Christians. Highest levels of smoking characterise people not professing any religion. Associations between smoking and the Muslim religion attenuate to statistical insignificance in the face of ethnic and socio-economic factors. An association between smoking and the absence of a religious affiliation is sustained. An understanding of the association between smoking and religion is essential to the development of tobacco control programmes.

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Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

2017

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“…The established negative correlation between "religiosity" (church attendance, claimed faith, or self-report) and smoking has been replicated across cultural contexts, including Bangladesh (Kamal et al 2010), Brazil (Gomes et al 2013), Mexico (Marsiglia et al 2012), and Slovakia (Pitel et al 2012). However, this result is by no means universal, with no effect for religiosity emerging for adolescents coming from South African townships (Prinsloo et al 2008). There is evidence to suggest that the effect for religiosity is driven by the strength of individual belief rather than simply associating with a religious community (Gmel et al 2013;Marsiglia et al 2012).…”

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Smoking and Cardiovascular Risk: Role of Personality in Adolescent Smoking

Mazanov

Byrne

2015

Handbook of Psychocardiology

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Work to mitigate the increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) brought about by cigarette smoking compels primary and secondary prevention activity among adolescents. Personality plays a prominent role among the variables associated with adolescent onset and maintenance of smoking. The role of personality in adolescent smoking is examined by contrasting results from research exploring association versus causality and then evidence from studies examining onset versus maintenance in relation to models of personality, risk, smoking beliefs/knowledge, self-esteem/self-efficacy, locus of control, and religiosity. Analysis using the two comparisons demonstrates the need for research in the area to consider dynamical approaches to explain changes in adolescent smoking behavior more deeply. For example, advances in the mathematical sophistication of adolescent smoking research make it possible to understand how changes in knowledge about the health consequences of smoking influence the onset or maintenance of smoking among adolescents. The development of more dynamical explanations of adolescent behavior may prove valuable explanations of behavior among adults trying to quit smoking to reduce the risk of CVD.

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“…Controlling for their effect allows for a cleaner study of the weather consumption association (Prinsloo, Tudhope, Pitt, & Campbell, 2008;Deshpande & Rundle-Thiele, 2011). A review of the literature on factors affecting the consumption of tobacco highlights multiple SED factors that are deemed important.…”

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Geographically Varying Effects of Weather on Tobacco Consumption: Implications for Health Marketing Initiatives

Govind

Garg

Sun

2014

Health Marketing Quarterly

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Weather and its fluctuations have been found to influence the consumption of negative hedonic goods. However, such findings are of limited use to health marketers who cannot control the weather, and hence, its effects. The current research utilizes data obtained at the zip-code level to study geographical variations in the effect of weather on tobacco consumption across the entire continental United States. The results allow health marketers to identify areas that will be most responsive to marketing efforts aimed at curtailing negative hedonic consumption and thus implement more effective, region-specific initiatives.

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Using Demographics to Predict Smoking Behavior: Large Sample Evidence from an Emerging Market

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

Smoking and Cardiovascular Risk: Role of Personality in Adolescent Smoking

Geographically Varying Effects of Weather on Tobacco Consumption: Implications for Health Marketing Initiatives

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