Smoking behavior among participants in the nurses' health study.
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 77 (5) , 628-630
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.5.628
Abstract
We analyzed smoking behavior of 91,651 married female nurses, aged 30-55 years in 1976. The prevalence of smoking was similar among all birth cohorts. The largest percentage increase in starting to smoke occurred between ages 15 and 25 years; by age 25, 50 per cent had started smoking. The cessation rate was lowest in earlier birth cohorts and among nurses starting to smoke at earlier ages. The cessation rate increased substantially between 1963-73 compared with the period 1948-58.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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