Adolescent smoking and tertiary education: opposing pathways linking socio-economic background to alcohol consumption.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

If socio-economic disadvantage is associated with more adolescent smoking, but less participation in tertiary education, and smoking and tertiary education are both associated with heavier drinking, these may represent opposing pathways to heavy drinking. This paper examines contextual variation in the magnitude and direction of these associations.

Design

Comparing cohort studies.

Setting

United Kingdom.

Participants

Participants were from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS58; n = 15 672), the British birth cohort study (BCS70; n = 12 735) and the West of Scotland Twenty-07 1970s cohort (T07; n = 1515).

Measurements

Participants self-reported daily smoking and weekly drinking in adolescence (age 16 years) and heavy drinki

SUBMITTER: Green MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4943526 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature