Joint Association of Education and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status with Smoking Behavior: The Multiethnic Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Background Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable mortality. Both neighborhood- and individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) are inversely associated with smoking. However, their joint effect on smoking behavior has not been evaluated. Methods This cross-sectional study examined the association of education and neighborhood SES (nSES) with smoking among 166,475 Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) participants (African American, Japanese American, Latino, Native Hawaiian, White individuals) recruited between 1993-1996 from Hawaii and LA County. nSES was based on a composite score of 1990 US Census data and assigned to geocoded addresses; nSES quintiles were based on region-specific distributions. The joint education/nSES variable had four categories: high nSES (Quintile

SUBMITTER: Walsh CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581112 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature