Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?
Author(s) -
Stephen E. Gilman,
Laurie T. Martin,
David B. Abrams,
Ichiro Kawachi,
Laura D. Kubzansky,
Eric B. Loucks,
Richard Rende,
Rima E. Rudd,
Stephen L. Buka
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym250
Subject(s) - demography , medicine , sibling , odds ratio , socioeconomic status , educational attainment , confounding , confidence interval , cohort , relative risk , cohort study , tobacco control , psychology , population , public health , environmental health , developmental psychology , nursing , sociology , economics , economic growth
Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established.
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