Health Sciences 3025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lung Cancer, Passive Smoking, Cardiovascular Disease
17 Dec 2016
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The association between smoking bans and nicotine dependence: a longitudinal analysis of current smokers in canada. Most high income countries are starting to put large efforts to ban smoking due to the heightened global awareness of the negative health effects of second hand smoke and ets: environmental tobacco smoke. Increases: lung cancer, respiratory problems, sudden infant death syndrome, cardiovascular disease. Workplace and home bans for smoking have been quite effective in helping people quit smoking: but no research has been done on its effects on nicotine dependence. And only 35% of smokers, surveyed, were nicotine dependent. The researchers used the ftnd scale: fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence. They handed out surveys which has as series of questions. The independent variables: years smoking, age, gender, education, work schedule. Restricted in certain areas (with smoking areas) About 35% of smokers were nicotine dependent: more males than females, average age was 38. And they had been smoking 22 years.
