ArticleAmerican journal of public health2000
Pattern of smoking initiation in Catalonia, Spain, from 1948 to 1992.
Article in American journal of public health, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Trends in initiation of regular cigarette smoking in 28 European countries, 1940-2019: retrospective reconstruction from repeated cross-sectional surveys.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Modelling annual prevalence of tobacco consumption in Spain, 1991-2020.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- [Smoking control in Spain: current situation and priorities].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2019Article
- Estimating the probabilities of making a smoking quit attempt in Italy: stall in smoking cessation levels, 1986-2009.BMC public health · 2012Article
- [Quitting and prevalence of smoking: gender, social class, and primary health care].Atencion primaria · 2008Article
- Global Patterns and Determinants of Sex Differences in Smoking.International journal of comparative sociology · 2006Article
- [Combined radiochemotherapy in localised small-cell lung cancer. Concurrent treatment protocols?].Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2005Article
- Educational inequalities in smoking among men and women aged 16 years and older in 11 European countries.Tobacco control · 2005Article
- A multilevel analysis of tobacco use and tobacco consumption levels in France: are there any combination risk groups?European journal of public health · 2004Article
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- [Tobacco consumption among adolescents. Value of the intervention of health-service staff].Atencion primaria · 2002Article
- Ages at initiation of cigarette smoking and quit attempts among women: a generation effect.American journal of public health · 2002Article
- Widening social inequalities in smoking cessation in Spain, 1987-1997.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2001Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study analyzed the pattern of smoking initiation by sex and educational level in Catalonia, Spain.
methodsData from the 1994 Catalan Health Interview Survey were used (n = 12,245). The age and smoking status of each subject were reconstructed for each calendar period. Age-specific smoking initiation rates were calculated.
resultsSmoking initiation among females was rare until the 1960s, but from the period 1968-1972 onward a converging pattern was observed between the genders. Women with higher levels of education started smoking before other women, but the gradient of educational level has changed in recent years, with higher initiation rates among less-educated women.
conclusionsThese results are consistent with diffusion-of-innovations theory and could be related to social and economic changes from the 1960s onward in Spain.
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