By Dean R. Lillard, Rebekka Christopoulou
ISBN-10: 0199389101
ISBN-13: 9780199389100
Regardless of efforts to minimize tobacco use, international tobacco dependancy is still as powerful as ever. Smoking charges are declining very slowly in complex international locations, and they're expanding within the constructing global. but, researchers nonetheless don't totally comprehend what drives smoking decisions.
Life-Course Smoking Behavior provides smoking trajectories of other generations of girls and males from ten of the world's such a lot noticeable nations, with nation-specific consultant samples spanning greater than 80 years of contemporary heritage. To motivate hypotheses at the determinants of smoking habit, the authors position those info in financial, political, social, and cultural contexts, which range significantly either throughout nations at a specific time and through the years in a given state.
Though major learn has been performed on smoking facts and tobacco keep an eye on guidelines, such a lot descriptions of smoking habit depend upon cross-sectional "snapshot" information that don't song contributors' conduct all through their lifespan. Lillard and Christopoulou's paintings is a different and worthy textual content in its comparative life-course technique, making it a protracted late supplement to the present literature.