Smoking and (Not) Voting: The Negative Relationship Between a Health-Risk Behavior and Political Participation in Colorado | Zendy

Karen Albright | Zendy; Nancy Hood | Zendy; Ming Ma | Zendy; Arnold H. Levinson | Zendy

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Smoking and (Not) Voting: The Negative Relationship Between a Health-Risk Behavior and Political Participation in Colorado

Author(s) -

Karen Albright,

Nancy Hood,

Ming Ma,

Arnold H. Levinson

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

nicotine and tobacco research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338

H-Index - 113

eISSN - 1469-994X

pISSN - 1462-2203

DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntv098

Subject(s) - voting , voting behavior , psychology , public health , disadvantaged , politics , survey data collection , psychological intervention , tobacco control , interpersonal communication , population , social psychology , logistic regression , political science , environmental health , medicine , psychiatry , statistics , nursing , mathematics , law

Considerable evidence suggests that cigarette smokers are an increasingly marginalized population, involved in fewer organizations and activities and with less interpersonal trust than their nonsmoking counterparts. However, only two previous studies, both among Swedish populations, have investigated smokers' attitudes toward political systems and institutions. The current, cross-sectional study examines smoking in relation to voting, a direct behavioral measure of civic and political engagement that at least partly reflects trust in formal political institutions.

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