Lifetime smoking habits among Norwegian men and women born between 1890 and 1994: a cohort analysis using cross-sectional data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Providing lifetime smoking prevalence data and gender-specific cigarette consumption data for use in epidemiological studies of tobacco-induced cancer in Norway. Characterising smoking patterns in birth cohorts is essential for evaluating the impact of tobacco control interventions and predicting smoking-related mortality.

Setting

Norway.

Participants

Previously analysed annual surveys of smoking habits from 1954 to 1992, and individual lifetime smoking histories collected in 1965 from a sample of people born in 1893-1927, were supplemented with new annual surveys of smoking habits from 1993 to 2013. Age range 15-74 years.

Primary outcome measure

Current smoking proportions in 5-year gender-and-birth cohorts of people born between 1890 and 1994.

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SUBMITTER: Lund I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4202009 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature