Poor more likely to smoke and less likely to quit

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7445.914-e

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Roger Dobson

Abergavenny

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 …