Finding smoking hot-spots: a cross-sectional survey of smoking patterns by housing tenure in England.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine smoking prevalence, motivation and attempts to stop smoking, markers of cigarette addiction and success in quit attempts of people living in social housing in England compared with other housing tenures.

Design and setting

A large cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of the English population conducted between January 2015 and October 2017.

Participants

A total of 57 522 adults (aged ≥ 16 years).

Measurements

Main outcomes were smoking status, number of cigarettes per day, time to first cigarette, exposure to smoking by others, motivation to stop smoking, past-year quit attempts and use of cessation support. Covariates were age, sex, social grade, region and survey year.

Findings

Adults in social housing had twice the odds of

SUBMITTER: Jackson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6491989 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature