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Life-Course Smoking Behavior
Dean R. Lillard
Rebekka Christopoulou
其他書名
Patterns and National Context in Ten Countries
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2015-05-26
主題
Medical / Public Health
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Political Science / General
ISBN
019938911X
9780199389117
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dMMfCAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Smoking rates are declining very slowly in advanced countries, and they are increasing in the developing world. Yet, researchers still do not fully understand what drives smoking decisions. Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, with nation-specific representative samples spanning more than eighty years of recent history. To inspire hypotheses on the determinants of smoking behavior, the authors place these data in economic, political, social, and cultural contexts, which differ greatly both across countries at a particular time and over time in a given country. Though significant research has been conducted on smoking statistics and tobacco control policies, most descriptions of smoking behavior rely on cross-sectional "snapshot" data that do not track individuals' habits throughout their lifespan. Lillard and Christopoulou's work is a unique and necessary text in its comparative life-course approach, making it a long overdue complement to the existing literature.