Cigarette smoking is negatively associated with family average income among urban and rural men in regional Mainland China Xu, Fei, Yin, Xiao-Mei, Zhang, Min, Ware, Robert, Leslie, Eva and Owen, Neville 2007, Cigarette smoking is negatively associated with family average income among urban and rural men in regional Mainland China, International journal of mental health addiction, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 17-23, doi: 10.1007/s11469-006-9043-7. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Cigarette smoking is negatively associated with family average income among urban and rural men in regional Mainland China Author(s) Xu, Fei Yin, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Min Ware, Robert Leslie, Eva Owen, Neville Journal name International journal of mental health addiction Volume number 5 Issue number 1 Start page 17 End page 23 Publisher Springer Verlag Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2007-01 ISSN 1557-1874 1557-1882 Keyword(s) China smoking socio-economic status Summary Socio-economic status (SES) has a strong influence on cigarette smoking behaviour. However, as a more sensitive and realistic index of SES, family average income (FAI) has little studied regarding its association with smoking. With a response rate of 90.1%, a cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected urban-rural participants (n  = 29,353) between October of 2000 and March of 2001 in Nanjing, China. The proportion of male participants who were current smokers was 54.7%; for females it was 2.2%. After adjustment for possible confounding variables (area of residence, age, education, occupation) males in the middle (OR 0.76; 95% CI 0.69–0.84) and higher (OR 0.64; 95% CI 0.57–0.71) FAI tertiles had lower odds of being smokers than did males in the lower FAI tertile. There were no differences by FAI category in the odds of being an ex-smoker. Therefore, current smoking among adult males is inversely associated with family average income in a regional Chinese population. FAI may inform the targeting of campaigns or other initiatives, particularly in populations where material prosperity is low in some social groups. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s11469-006-9043-7 Field of Research 111706 Epidemiology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Springer Science + Business Media Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007210 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 06 Feb 2009, 13:44:47 EST Mon, 19 Apr 2010, 09:35:47 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 08:31:10 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 14:24:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 7 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1575 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:49:33 EST