ArticleBMC public health2017
Smoking habits in French farmers: a cross-sectional study.
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- Leveraging Administrative Health Databases to Address Health Challenges in Farming Populations: Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis (1975-2024).JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Investigating Parkinson's disease risk across farming activities using data mining and large-scale administrative health data.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- Farming Activities and Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A French Nationwide Population-based Cohort Study.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2024Article
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- Mortality by cause of death and risk behaviors in farmers versus non-farmers: the importance of avoiding the healthy worker effect.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2019Article
- Indoor exposure to particulate matter and volatile organic compounds in dwellings and workplaces and respiratory health in French farmers.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundFarmers are exposed to multiple air contaminants that may interact with tobacco smoking in the development of respiratory diseases. Farmers are currently considered to smoke less than non-farmers, but precise data in different categories of age and farming activities are lacking.
methodsSmoking habits were studied in a cross-sectional study involving 4105 farmers and 996 non-farming controls aged 40-74 years in 9 French departments between October 2012 and May 2013. Three age groups were defined (40-54, 55-64 and 65-74years). Farmers were divided into four activity groups, namely cattle breeders, livestock farmers working in confined spaces, crop farmers and others. Smoking prevalence was compared between farmers and controls, and odds ratios (ORs) for smoking adjusted for age were calculated.
resultsThe adjusted OR for ever-smoking was lower among farmers than among non-farmers in all age categories, but the ORs for current smoking were similar in farmers and controls. Smoking prevalence varied according to the type of farming activity, and was lower than in non-farming controls only among cattle breeders and confined livestock farmers. In farmers, the proportion of smokers was higher in the youngest age categories compared with the older age classes.
conclusionsOur results confirm that the prevalence of ever-smokers is lower in farmers than in non-farmers. Nevertheless, our data show that active smoking prevalence is similar in farmers and in non-farmers. This suggests that farmers, just like non-farmers, should be targeted by primary prevention campaigns against smoking.
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