Cohort Effects on Tobacco Consumption and Its Genetic and Environmental Variance Among Finnish Adults Born Between 1880 and 1957.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Population research indicates that smoking behaviors in Finland have varied over time by sex and birth cohort. Smoking behaviors are influenced by genes and the environment; like the behaviors themselves, these underlying influences are not necessarily stable over time and may be modifiable by national drug policy.

Aims and methods

We utilized longitudinal mixed-effects models and causal-common-contingent twin models to evaluate sex and cohort effects on tobacco consumption and the underlying genetic and environmental variance components in a birth cohort sample of same-sex twins born in Finland between 1880 and 1957, assessed in 1975, 1981, 1990, and 2011.

Results

We identified significant main effects of age, sex, and cohort on quantity of cigarette con

SUBMITTER: Zellers S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581999 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature