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Changing Smoking Patterns in Calvados (France)
Author(s) -
Tuyns A. J.,
Hu M. X.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1982.tb01418.x
Subject(s) - homogeneous , demography , medicine , young adult , population , age groups , environmental health , gerontology , physics , sociology , thermodynamics
Summary The results of a population survey in Calvados (France) on smoking patterns are presented and discussed. At some time during their lives, 80 % of males and 20 % of females have indulged in smoking, 54 % and 14 % respectively are currently smoking. Cigarettes are the most widespread product smoked. Hand‐rolled cigarettes are still used by males of older age‐groups, particularly in rural areas, but are progressively replaced by commercial cigarettes. The proportion of ex‐smokers increases with age but the resulting decrease in consumption is compensated by an earlier starting age among young males and by a larger proportion of smokers among young females. The differential behaviour of males and females towards smoking contrasts with attitudes observed in the United Kingdom and the United States, but the recent changes occurring in young females indicate a trend towards a more homogeneous distribution of smoking in both sexes, as in other countries, with its prospective health implications.