OBJECTIVES The aim was (1) to investigate the association between education and smoking status (current, former and never-smoking) among non-western immigrants in Norway and (2) examine if these associations fit the pattern predicted by the model of the cigarette epidemic. DESIGN Data came from the Oslo Health Study and the Oslo Immigrant Health study (2000-2002). The first included all Oslo ...

How can women who are not yet pregnant be motivated to stop smoking before they become pregnant? Epidemiological studies have suggested that periconceptional smoking and smoking during the first trimester of the pregnancy may lead to congenital abnormalities. To motivate women to stop smoking before pregnancy, more insight is needed into the differences between 'smoking' women who want to have ...

Matching with a Handicap: The Case of Smoking in the Marriage Market We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for non-smokers, but it is neutral for smokers, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic quality. Furthermore, there is a gend...

BACKGROUND Migration of non-Western women into Western countries often results in an increase in smoking prevalence among migrant women. To gain more insight into how to prevent this increase, we compared psychosocial determinants of smoking between Surinamese women in Suriname and those in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were obtained between 2000 and 2004 from two cross-sectional studies, the...

OBJECTIVE To describe prospective transitions in smoking among young adult women who were occasional smokers, and the factors associated with these transitions, by comparing sociodemographic, lifestyle and psychosocial characteristics of those who changed from occasional smoking to daily smoking, non-daily smoking or non-smoking. DESIGN Longitudinal study with mailed questionnaires. PARTICI...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess total and cause specific mortality among participants and non-participants of large population based health surveys. DESIGN A prospective follow up study. Baseline surveys were conducted in 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992. Study end points were overall, cardiovascular, cancer and violent mortality, and deaths related to smoking and alcohol. Study cohorts were follow...

BACKGROUND In Australia, national smoking prevalence has successfully fallen below 20%, but remains about 50% amongst Indigenous Australians. Australian Indigenous tobacco control is framed by the idea that nothing has worked and a sense of either despondency or the difficulty of the challenge. METHODS This paper examines the trends in smoking prevalence of Australian Indigenous men and women...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To incorporate women's domestic trajectories and circumstances into analyses of the socioeconomic influences on women's smoking status (current and former smoking) in early adulthood. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Southampton, UK. PARTICIPANTS 8437 women aged 25-34 recruited from 1998-2002 via patient lists of general practices. MAIN RESULTS Domestic lifecourse ...

OBJECTIVES In general populations, the adverse effects of smoking on coronary risk have been demonstrated to be greater in women than in men; whether this is true for individuals with diabetes is unclear. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING 20 countries worldwide participating in the ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron modified release Controlled Evaluation) tr...

The relation between irregular and inconvenient working hours and the outcome of pregnancy was studied among women employed at a hospital in Sweden some time between 1980 and 1984. A questionnaire was distributed to 807 women; 81% replied. The pregnancies were divided into six groups with respect to work schedules during pregnancy. A slightly, but not significantly, increased risk of miscarriag...