Socioeconomic predictors of smoking and smoking frequency in urban China: evidence of smoking as a social function
Socioeconomic predictors of smoking and smoking frequency in urban China: evidence of smoking as a social function
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DOI：
10.1093/heapro/dah304
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发表时间：
2004-09-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Pan, ZF
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作者：
Pan, ZF
之前的一些研究记录了中国日益恶化的吸烟问题。本文确定了与城市在职成年人吸烟有关的几个关键社会经济变量，并呼吁研究人员注意吸烟在《中国》中作为社会关系建立者的重要作用。这项研究认为，由于吸烟者数量的持续增加和吸烟者戒烟意愿的降低，吸烟预防和教育计划应该更多地强调让吸烟在社会上没有必要和/或不可接受。研究结果还表明，尽管社会经济特征在预测一个人是否吸烟方面很好，但在预测在职成年人的吸烟频率方面却很糟糕。
A number of previous studies have documented the worsening smoking problems in China. This paper identifies several key socioeconomic variables associated with smoking among urban working adults and calls researchers' attention to the important function of cigarette smoking as a social connection builder in China. This study argues that a smoking prevention and education program should place more emphasis on making smoking socially unnecessary and/or unacceptable because of the continuing increase in the number of smokers and the low desire to quit among smokers. The findings also suggest that while socioeconomic characteristics are excellent in predicting whether a person smokes or not, they are dismal in predicting smoking frequency among working adults.