Smoking Disparities by Level of Educational Attainment and Birth Cohort in the U.S.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Little is known about how U.S. smoking patterns of initiation, cessation, and intensity vary by birth cohort across education levels or how these patterns may be driven by other demographic characteristics.

Methods

Smoking data for adults aged ≥25 years was obtained from the National Health Interview Surveys 1966-2018. Age-period-cohort models were developed to estimate the probabilities of smoking initiation, cessation, intensity, and prevalence by age, cohort, calendar year, and gender for education levels: ≤8th grade, 9th-11th grade, high school graduate or GED, some college, and college degree or above. Further analyses were conducted to identify the demographic factors (race/ethnicity and birthplace) that may explain the smoking patterns by education. Analy

SUBMITTER: Cao P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10177656 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature