ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2015
Losing jobs and lighting up: Employment experiences and smoking in the Great Recession.
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- Breaking Bonds, Changing Habits: Understanding Health Behaviors during and after Marital Dissolution.Journal of health and social behavior · 2026Article
- Association of Financial Distress and Monthly Income with Smoking During the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession in Thailand: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Depression and anxiety mediate the relationship between COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and tobacco and marijuana use.PloS one · 2025Article
- Inequalities in Smoking and Quitting-Related Outcomes Among Adults With and Without Children in the Household 2013-2019: A Population Survey in England.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- The association between gender roles and smoking initiation among women and adolescent girls.Journal of gender studies · 2020Article
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- Quality and quantity: The association of state-level educational policies with later life cardiovascular disease.Preventive medicine · 2019Article
- Current smoking and quit-attempts among US adults following Medicaid expansion.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- The role of income and psychological distress in the relationship between work loss and smoking cessation: Findings from three International Tobacco Control (ITC) Europe countries.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2019Article
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Abstract
The Great Recession produced the highest rates of unemployment observed in decades, in part due to particularly high rates of people losing work involuntarily. The impact of these job losses on health is unknown, due to the length of time required for most disease development, concerns about reverse causation, and limited data that covers this time period. We examine associations between job loss, employment status and smoking, the leading preventable cause of death, among 13,571 individuals participating in the 2001-2011 waves of the U.S.-based Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Results indicate that recent involuntary job loss is associated with an average 1.1 percentage point increase in smoking probability. This risk is strongest when people have returned to work, and appears reversed when they leave the labor market altogether. Although some job loss is associated with changes in household income and psychological distress levels, we find no evidence that these changes explain smoking behavior modifications. Smoking prevention programs and policies targeted at displaced workers or the newly employed may alleviate some negative health effects produced by joblessness during the Great Recession.
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