Gender differences in cigarette consumption in Turkey: Evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey

Kılıç, Dilek; Öztürk, Selcen

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.05.019

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“…Findings also indicate that there is a positive relationship between educational levels and smoking participation for females. With more education as compared to primary or less education, female adults are less likely to reduce their smoking participation, which is consistent with the findings of Kilic and Ozturk (2014) for Turkey. However, this is contrary to the common belief that females with lower socioeconomic status are more likely to smoke.…”

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confidence: 86%

Tütün Yasağının Genişletilmesinin Sigara Kullanma Olasılığı Üzerine Etkileri

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Governments across the world have been fighting against tobacco use by introducing a series of anti-tobacco measures to eliminate tobacco-related diseases. After ratifying the first global public health treaty by the World Health Organization in 2005, Turkey urgently implemented a series of anti-smoking policies to address the tobacco epidemic. We utilized data from the Global Adult Tobacco Surveys 2008 and 2012 for Turkey and implemented a Linear Probability Model to estimate the effect of introducing anti-smoking policies to provide new evidence on reducing smoking. Two significant anti-tobacco policies undertaken between 2009 and 2010 had a significant negative impact on the likelihood of being a current smoker. The new policies helped reduce the probability of being smokers for both females and males, but the effect was more substantial for male adults. Education has distinct effects on females and males such that with more education, female adults are more likely to smoke while the opposite is true for male adults. Policymakers should consider these findings to address tobacco consumption and announce multiple policies taking gender differences into account to stop the smoking epidemic.

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confidence: 86%

Tütün Yasağının Genişletilmesinin Sigara Kullanma Olasılığı Üzerine Etkileri

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2020

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“…Such women usually live in big cities and have adopted a more modern lifestyle. They are influenced by many factors such as tobacco marketing, emancipation, globalization and urbanization (Kilic & Ozturk, 2014). With declining tobacco consumption in the developed world, tobacco companies have turned to developing countries, targeting educated youth and especially women by marketing their products as modern and fashionable, creating a further challenge to policy makers.…”

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“…With declining tobacco consumption in the developed world, tobacco companies have turned to developing countries, targeting educated youth and especially women by marketing their products as modern and fashionable, creating a further challenge to policy makers. Smoking is being presented not only as a stress companion, but also as a symbol of emancipation and even as an assistant in weight control (Erten & Aslan, 2008; Kilic & Ozturk, 2014).…”

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Relative deprivation and its association with health indicators: Lower inequality may not improve health

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2019

SSM - Population Health

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This study tested the hypothesis of relative deprivation (RD) to investigate how inequality is associated with health and health related behaviors in a developing country context. Data from two nationally representative surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 were used to estimate logit and ordered logit models stratified by sex. RD was calculated based on both income and education, unlike most studies in the earlier literature that relied only on income. All results of the study were found to be robust to alternative reference groups. First, consistent with the earlier literature, RD was found to be positively correlated with indicators of poor health. Secondly, and more interestingly, unlike the results in the earlier RD literature, women with more income or education (and lower RD ) were found to be more likely to be current smokers and more likely to consume a higher number of cigarettes. The main policy implication is that reducing inequality can help improve self-rated health indicators, but it will not be sufficient to achieve health policy goals. Unless smoking patterns change, reducing inequalities in income or education among women will not necessarily lead to better health; because smoking is more common among better educated and richer women.

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“…Moghimbeigi et al in a study conducted in high schools in Iran showed that the daily number of cigarettes in male students was about 4 times greater than that of the female students 64 . Kilic and Ozturk in a study investigated the gender differences in cigarette consumption among adults in Turkey 65 . They found that the daily number of cigarettes in males was 1.6 times greater compared with the females.…”

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Determining correlates of the average number of cigarette smoking among college students using count regression models

Parami

Tapak

Moghimbeigi

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college students, as a large part of young adults, are a vulnerable group to several risky behaviors including smoking and drug abuse. this study aimed to utilize and to compare count regression models to identify correlates of cigarette smoking among college students. this was a cross-sectional study conducted on students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. the poisson, negative binomial, generalized Poisson, exponentiated-exponential geometric regression models and their zero-inflated counterparts were fitted and compared using the Vuong test (α = 0.05). A number of 1258 students participated in this study. The majority of students were female (60.8%) and their average age was 23 years. Most of the students were non-smokers (84.6%). Negative binomial regression was selected as the most appropriate model for analyzing the data (comparable fit and simpler interpretation). The significant correlates of the number of cigarettes smoked per day included gender (male: incident-rateratio (IRR = 9.21), birth order (Forth: IRR = 1.99), experiencing a break-up (IRR = 2.11), extramarital sex (heterosexual (IRR = 2.59), homosexual (IRR = 3.13) vs. none), and drug abuse (IRR = 5.99). Our findings revealed that several high-risk behaviors were associated with the intensity of smoking, suggesting that these behaviors should be considered in smoking cessation intervention programs for college students.

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Gender differences in cigarette consumption in Turkey: Evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey

Cited by 24 publications

References 20 publications

Tütün Yasağının Genişletilmesinin Sigara Kullanma Olasılığı Üzerine Etkileri

Tütün Yasağının Genişletilmesinin Sigara Kullanma Olasılığı Üzerine Etkileri

Relative deprivation and its association with health indicators: Lower inequality may not improve health

Determining correlates of the average number of cigarette smoking among college students using count regression models

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