Social class and adolescent smoking behaviour

Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours

“…One of the main findings of this study is that both individuals’ educational attainment and their intergenerational trajectories exert stronger associations with smoking than with binge drinking, especially when estimated with predicted probabilities. These findings are in line with previous research showing that intergenerational mobility has a stronger effect on daily smoking than for instance with weekly use of alcohol or being heavily intoxicated more than once a month (Glendinning et al 1994). This is arguably not surprising, given other evidence that smoking in the home influences the likelihood of initiation by adolescents.…”

Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours

“…One of the main findings of this study is that both individuals’ educational attainment and their intergenerational trajectories exert stronger associations with smoking than with binge drinking, especially when estimated with predicted probabilities. These findings are in line with previous research showing that intergenerational mobility has a stronger effect on daily smoking than for instance with weekly use of alcohol or being heavily intoxicated more than once a month (Glendinning et al 1994). This is arguably not surprising, given other evidence that smoking in the home influences the likelihood of initiation by adolescents.…”

Educational Differences in Smoking among Adolescents in Germany: What is the Role of Parental and Adolescent Education Levels and Intergenerational Educational Mobility?

“…Our finding that intergenerational social mobility relates to smoking behaviour is also confirmed by the literature [15,26,35,38,39,40,41,42,43]. Lower smoking rates among young people with a stable high SES and those who experienced social upward mobility, and a higher inclination towards smoking in peers with a stable low SES and those who experienced social downward mobility, have been reported in studies from Scotland [15], France [38] and Ghana [40], among others. Already published KiGGS data have shown that intergenerational educational mobility also affects adolescents’ risk of obesity [50], multiple health behaviours [53,54], behavioural problems and their use of violence [55].…”

Family and friends' influences on the uptake of regular smoking from mid‐adolescence to early adulthood

“…In a previous paper (West & Sweeting, 1996), we have shown that independently of class of background earlier smoking is related strongly to later labour market position, those in tertiary education at age 18 being very unlikely to have been smokers at age 15, those who became unemployed having much higher rates. Similar results have been reported by Glendinning, Shucksmith & Hendry, (1994) in a study of young people in Scotland, and by Chassin et al (1992) in the United States. What these ® ndings suggest is that (non) smoking is not only associated with particular life-styles in adolescence but that such life-styles re¯ect future adult roles, perhaps by a process of anticipatory socialization.…”

Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours

“…One of the main findings of this study is that both individuals’ educational attainment and their intergenerational trajectories exert stronger associations with smoking than with binge drinking, especially when estimated with predicted probabilities. These findings are in line with previous research showing that intergenerational mobility has a stronger effect on daily smoking than for instance with weekly use of alcohol or being heavily intoxicated more than once a month (Glendinning et al 1994). This is arguably not surprising, given other evidence that smoking in the home influences the likelihood of initiation by adolescents.…”

Educational Differences in Smoking among Adolescents in Germany: What is the Role of Parental and Adolescent Education Levels and Intergenerational Educational Mobility?

“…Our finding that intergenerational social mobility relates to smoking behaviour is also confirmed by the literature [15,26,35,38,39,40,41,42,43]. Lower smoking rates among young people with a stable high SES and those who experienced social upward mobility, and a higher inclination towards smoking in peers with a stable low SES and those who experienced social downward mobility, have been reported in studies from Scotland [15], France [38] and Ghana [40], among others. Already published KiGGS data have shown that intergenerational educational mobility also affects adolescents’ risk of obesity [50], multiple health behaviours [53,54], behavioural problems and their use of violence [55].…”

Family and friends' influences on the uptake of regular smoking from mid‐adolescence to early adulthood

“…In a previous paper (West & Sweeting, 1996), we have shown that independently of class of background earlier smoking is related strongly to later labour market position, those in tertiary education at age 18 being very unlikely to have been smokers at age 15, those who became unemployed having much higher rates. Similar results have been reported by Glendinning, Shucksmith & Hendry, (1994) in a study of young people in Scotland, and by Chassin et al (1992) in the United States. What these ® ndings suggest is that (non) smoking is not only associated with particular life-styles in adolescence but that such life-styles re¯ect future adult roles, perhaps by a process of anticipatory socialization.…”

Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours

“…One of the main findings of this study is that both individuals’ educational attainment and their intergenerational trajectories exert stronger associations with smoking than with binge drinking, especially when estimated with predicted probabilities. These findings are in line with previous research showing that intergenerational mobility has a stronger effect on daily smoking than for instance with weekly use of alcohol or being heavily intoxicated more than once a month (Glendinning et al 1994). This is arguably not surprising, given other evidence that smoking in the home influences the likelihood of initiation by adolescents.…”

Educational Differences in Smoking among Adolescents in Germany: What is the Role of Parental and Adolescent Education Levels and Intergenerational Educational Mobility?

“…Our finding that intergenerational social mobility relates to smoking behaviour is also confirmed by the literature [15,26,35,38,39,40,41,42,43]. Lower smoking rates among young people with a stable high SES and those who experienced social upward mobility, and a higher inclination towards smoking in peers with a stable low SES and those who experienced social downward mobility, have been reported in studies from Scotland [15], France [38] and Ghana [40], among others. Already published KiGGS data have shown that intergenerational educational mobility also affects adolescents’ risk of obesity [50], multiple health behaviours [53,54], behavioural problems and their use of violence [55].…”

Family and friends' influences on the uptake of regular smoking from mid‐adolescence to early adulthood

“…In a previous paper (West & Sweeting, 1996), we have shown that independently of class of background earlier smoking is related strongly to later labour market position, those in tertiary education at age 18 being very unlikely to have been smokers at age 15, those who became unemployed having much higher rates. Similar results have been reported by Glendinning, Shucksmith & Hendry, (1994) in a study of young people in Scotland, and by Chassin et al (1992) in the United States. What these ® ndings suggest is that (non) smoking is not only associated with particular life-styles in adolescence but that such life-styles re¯ect future adult roles, perhaps by a process of anticipatory socialization.…”