The Greek smoking epidemic from a life-course perspective.

ABSTRACT: Smoking rates in Greece are the highest recorded among OECD countries, but the historical and life-course evolution of smoking patterns is largely unknown. The present paper addresses this gap. We produce nationally representative life-course trajectories of smoking and related mortality of eight generations of Greek men and women. We estimate the smoking-mortality correlation conditional on several confounders and project the estimates forward. We show that smoking prevalence among Greek men has plateaued at >60% for all but the youngest generation. For women, smoking prevalence is relatively lower, lags by several generations and follows a hump-shaped pattern. Smoking-attributable mortality is currently peaking for men (nearing 40% of total deaths) and is rising for women. We estimate th

SUBMITTER: Christopoulou R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9715303 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature