Differential Relationship between Tobacco Control Policies and U.S. Adult Current Smoking by Poverty.

ABSTRACT: The study's purpose was to identify differences in the relationship between tobacco control policies and smoking by poverty. We matched state smoke-free air law coverage (SFALs), tobacco control funding (TCF), and cigarette taxes with individual current smoking and demographics from supplements to the Current Population Survey (1985-2015). We regressed (logistic) smoking on policy variables, poverty (<138% of poverty line versus ≥138% of poverty line), interactions of policy and poverty, and covariates, presenting beta coefficients instead of odds ratios because it is difficult to interpret interactions using odds ratios (they are ratios of odds ratios). We coded SFALs as (1) proportion of state covered by 100% workplace, restaurant and bar laws (SFAL-All) or (2) proportion of state covere

SUBMITTER: Dutra LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6862047 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature