Widening inequalities in smoking initiation and cessation patterns: A cohort and gender analysis in France

• Published in: Drug and alcohol dependence Vol. 117; no. 2; pp. 233 - 241
• Main Authors: Legleye, S, Khlat, M, Beck, F, Peretti-Watel, P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.09.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Addictive behaviors; Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Cessation; Cohort Studies; Data Collection; Databases, Factual; Education; Educational Status; Female; France; Gender; Gender differences; Gender ratios; Generations; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Inequalities; Initiation; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Nicotine - adverse effects; Nicotinic Agonists - adverse effects; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Random Allocation; Sex Factors; Smoking; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking - trends; Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data; Socioeconomic Factors; Time-discrete survival analysis; Tobacco; Tobacco epidemic; Tobacco smoking; Tobacco, tobacco smoking; Toxicology; Young Adult; France; Europe; Tobacco; Gender; Education; Generations; Tobacco epidemic; Time-discrete survival analysis; Epidemic; Human; Drug addiction; Poison withdrawal; Sex; Tobacco smoking; Epidemiology; Survival; Teaching; Addiction; Shutdown; Cohort study; Time analysis; Initiation; Public health; Inequality

Abstract Aims This study investigates the evolution of educational inequalities in smoking initiation and cessation in France according to gender and birth cohort. Methods We used a 2005 nationwide survey comprising 25,239 subjects aged 18–75 years. Three cohort groups were defined (born 1930–1945,...