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Life course socioeconomic conditions, passive tobacco exposures and cigarette smoking in a multiethnic birth cohort of U.S. women
- Source :
- Cancer Causes & Control. 20:867-876
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009.
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Abstract
- Low socioeconomic status (SES) and exposure to passive tobacco smoke are associated with increased risk of smoking in adults, but the influences of these factors in earlier life periods on adult smoking behavior are not well understood. We investigated the relationship of SES and passive tobacco exposure over the lifecourse with adult smoking status in a multiethnic cohort of U.S. women (n = 262, average age = 41.8), using prospective data on maternal smoking during pregnancy and childhood SES, and follow-up data on current smoking, adult SES and household tobacco exposure. Low adolescent and adult SES consistently increased the risk of current smoking, but most associations were not statistically significant in multivariable models. Blue collar parental occupation at birth increased the risk of smoking, particularly for current smoking relative to former smoking (odds ratio [OR] = 2.7, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.2-5.9). After adjusting for SES, current and former smokers were more likely than never smokers to have exposures to prenatal tobacco (OR = 4.4, 95% CI = 2.1-9.4 and OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.0-4.2, respectively) and adult household tobacco (OR = 2.7, 95% CI = 1.3-5.8 and OR = 2.4, 95% CI = 1.2-4.8, respectively). Our results show that early life conditions have enduring influences on women's smoking behavior in middle adulthood, even after considering similar types of conditions in later life periods.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Cancer Research
Self Disclosure
Passive smoking
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
medicine.disease_cause
Article
Tobacco smoke
Cohort Studies
Pregnancy
Environmental health
Confidence Intervals
Odds Ratio
medicine
Humans
Socioeconomic status
business.industry
Smoking
Odds ratio
Former Smoker
United States
Logistic Models
Socioeconomic Factors
Oncology
Maternal Exposure
Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
Smoking cessation
Life course approach
Female
Smoking Cessation
Tobacco Smoke Pollution
business
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737225 and 09575243
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cancer Causes & Control
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f6683a4ea45f44db9d373579d3294e82