Poor more likely to smoke and less likely to quit

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7445.914-e

BMJ 2004;328:914 (17 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7445.914-e

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Poor more likely to smoke and less likely to quit

Abergavenny Roger Dobson

Men and women from poorer backgrounds are more likely to smoke and less likely to give up the habit, a new study has found.

The annual quit rate among professional and managerial women in their 20s and 30s is almost twice that among those from unskilled manual backgrounds, says a study in the Journal of Public Health (2004:26:13-8).

Men were more likely to have smoked, but they were more likely to have given up by the age of 41, the study showed.

The prospective study was based on the smoking history and socioeconomic status of 10 500 men and women in the United Kingdom who have been monitored since 1958.

The authors looked at the reported smoking habits of the cohort and data on social class at birth and at age 23.

The results show that 40% of men and 38% of the women smoked at the . . . [Full text of this article]

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