Will a Decline in Smoking Increase Body Weights? Evidence from Belarus

Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; Bornukova, Kateryna; Ali, Mir M.

doi:10.1057/s41302-016-0071-0

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“…However, many previous studies reported that there was a long-run effect of smoking cessation on the weight gain [22,23]. Evenly, there were some economic literatures to report that smoking can reduce BMI [24][25][26]. Therefore, there might be an interaction effect between obesity and smoking on the risk of hypertension.…”

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BMI modified the association of current smoking with the incidence of hypertension in Chinese population: a 22-year cohort study

Yao¹,

Liu²,

Zhao

et al. 2020

BMC Public Health

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Background: There was little known on how the interaction effect between obesity and current smoking affected the incidence of hypertension. The aim of this study was to investigate how body mass index (BMI) modified the effect of current smoking on the incidence of hypertension.Methods: Data were obtained from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). According to the WHO recommendations for Chinese people, the normal weight, overweight, and obesity were defined using the BMI cutoff values 18.5 kg/m 2 , 23.0 kg/m 2 , and 27.5 kg/m, respectively. Current smokers were defined as having smoked at least 100 cigarettes or electronic cigarettes, 20 cigars, or 20 tobacco pipes and other type of tobacco in the last 30 days preceding the survey. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP)/ diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥ 140/90 mmHg, use of anti-hypertensive medications, or a self-reported diagnosis.Results: This study included 12,900 subjects. There were interaction effects between obesity and current smoking in females (P = 0.030) and the 50-59 years group (P = 0.049). Current smoking was a significant predictor of incident hypertension only in the total and female populations with normal weight (HR: 1.119 and 1.274; HR 95% CI: 1.013-1.236 and 1.143-1.415; and P = 0.027 and 0.040, respectively). Stratified by age, current smoking affected the development of hypertension only in the 50-59 years subjects with the normal weight (HR: 1.356; HR 95% CI: 1.084-1.697; and P = 0.008).Conclusions: Current smoking was a significant predictor of incident hypertension only in the female and middle-age populations with normal weight but not in the overweight and obesity as well as the younger and elder populations.

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BMI modified the association of current smoking with the incidence of hypertension in Chinese population: a 22-year cohort study

Yao¹,

Liu²,

Zhao

et al. 2020

BMC Public Health

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“…Entezarkheir et al (2016) use the Canadian Community Health Surveys from 2003 and 2005, and find that cigarette tax increases are associated with an increase in the rate of obesity. Amialchuk et al (2018) use the 1996 to 2008 waves of the Belarusian Household Survey of Income and Expenditure to estimate a relatively large negative relationship between smoking and BMI.…”

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Does quitting smoking increase obesity? Evidence that accounts for misreporting

Tchernis

Teltser

Teotia

2022

Southern Economic Journal

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Studying the relationship between smoking and obesity, the leading causes of preventable deaths in the U.S., helps assess the potential unintended consequences of policy efforts to reduce smoking. Because existing literature is mixed among studies using experimental and observational data, we investigate the role of misreporting in observational data. We use the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, cigarette taxes to instrument for smoking, and survey completion to instrument for misreporting. Starting with the seminal two‐stage least squares (2SLS) approach, our estimates similarly suggest quitting smoking substantially reduces body mass index (BMI). However, the relationship between cigarette taxes and BMI has shrunk over time, and the 2SLS estimates are sensitive to specification, functional form, and misreporting. Accounting for misreporting using the 2‐step estimator from Nguimkeu et al. (2019) yields estimates consistent with the experimental literature; quitting smoking modestly increases BMI. Our preferred estimate suggests reduced smoking accounts for 6% of the concurrent rise in obesity.

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Will a Decline in Smoking Increase Body Weights? Evidence from Belarus

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BMI modified the association of current smoking with the incidence of hypertension in Chinese population: a 22-year cohort study

BMI modified the association of current smoking with the incidence of hypertension in Chinese population: a 22-year cohort study

Does quitting smoking increase obesity? Evidence that accounts for misreporting

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