The Effect of Education on Smoking Decisions in the United States [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 This paper explores the link between education and the decision to start smoking as well as the decision to quit smoking. Data is gathered from IPUMS CPS and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Probit analysis (with the use of probability weight and robust standard error) indicates that every additional year of education will reduce the 2.3 ...
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Trends in smoking and quitting in China from 1993 to 2003: National Health Service Survey data [PDF]
, 2010 OBJECTIVE: China has about 350 million smokers, more commonly men. Using data from National Health Service Surveys conducted in 1993, 1998 and 2003, we (i) estimated trends in smoking prevalence and cessation according to sociodemographic variables and ...
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Health-Information Seeking and Intention to Quit Smoking: Do Health Beliefs Have a Mediating Role? [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Smoking is a leading cause of preventable deaths. Smoking cessation can reduce the risk of smoking-associated disease and death. But smoking cessation involves behaviour change.
Gakh, Maxim +2 more
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Smoking Behaviors and Abstinence in Low-Income Pregnant Women [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Despite efforts to educate individuals about the hazards of smoking, pregnant women continue to smoke. In the literature, there is less evidence about successful abstinence strategies for low-income women.
Alverson, Elise M, Kessler, Terry A
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Association of Smoking Cessation With Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2019 Importance The time course of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk after smoking cessation is unclear. Risk calculators consider former smokers to be at risk for only 5 years.
Meredith S. Duncan +5 more
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STCNet: Spatio-Temporal Cross Network for Industrial Smoke Detection [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Industrial smoke emissions present a serious threat to natural ecosystems and human health. Prior works have shown that using computer vision techniques to identify smoke is a low cost and convenient method. However, industrial smoke detection is a challenging task because industrial emission particles are often decay rapidly outside the stacks or ...
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Low Interest Rates and Housing Bubbles: Still No Smoking Gun [PDF]
This paper revisits the relationship between interest rates and house prices. Surveying a number of recent studies and bringing to bear some new evidence on the question, this paper argues that in the data, the impact of interest rates on house prices ...
Kenneth Kuttner
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Who's still smoking? Disparities in adult cigarette smoking prevalence in the United States
Ca, 2018 The continuing high prevalence of cigarette smoking among specific subpopulations, many of them vulnerable, is one of the most pressing challenges facing the tobacco control community.
J. Drope +7 more
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Electronic cigarette use among adults in 14 countries: A cross-sectional study
EClinicalMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: The tobacco product landscape continues to change. No recent data for electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use have been reported for multiple countries based on nationally representative surveys. We examined prevalence of e-cigarette
Liping Pan +4 more
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Effect of E-cigarette Use and Social Network on Smoking Behavior Change: An agent-based model of E-cigarette and Cigarette Interaction [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Despite a general reduction in smoking in many areas of the developed world, it remains one of the biggest public health threats. As an alternative to tobacco, the use of electronic cigarettes (ECig) has been increased dramatically over the last decade. ECig use is hypothesized to impact smoking behavior through several pathways, not only as a means of
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