Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 8WnR0x6I. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives : We investigated whether socioeconomic circumstances at different life stages influence persistent smoking. Methods : We followed a British birth cohort (all births between March 3 and 9,1958) for 41 years to examine the influence of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on persistent smoking in adulthood (n=6541). Results : Persistent smoking (19% of participants, n=1216) showed strong social gradients with both childhood and adulthood socioeconomic measures. Among men, the association with childhood socioeconomic circumstances was no longer significant after we adjusted for adulthood socioeconomic circumstances ; however, among women, the adjusted odds of persistent smoking increased by 8% for each unit increase across a 16-point childhood score. Conclusions : Childhood socioeconomic circumstances predicted persistent smoking among women in our cohort, a finding that highlights the importance of influences on the development of persistent smoking across the life course.
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