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A question about respondents' habitual smoking in the JGSS is "Do you smoke?" The answers differ by year.
Covariates included age at time of tests, length of abstinence in days, smoking habits (the total number of cigarettes smoked per day during months of habitual smoking), chemical exposures (mostly organic solvents, adhesives, paints, colors, and powders), body mass index (BMI) at the moment of the study, alcohol use (grams per day), educational level, and employment status.
For multiple logistic regression analysis and analysis of covariance, habitual smoking (never- or ex-smokers = 0; 1–20 cigarettes smoked per day = 1; >20 cigarettes smoked per day = 2), coffee consumption (≤1 cup per day = 1; 2–3 cups per day =2; ≥4 cups per day = 3) and antihypertensive medication use (no use of antihypertensive = 0; use of antihypertensive = 1) were numerically coded.
With these limitations and the possibility of unidentified confounding factors, the implications of our explanation for non-compliance with smoke-free policy, based exclusively on these differences in nicotine dependence and habitual smoking, are rendered conjectural.
Irritation of the skin from any cause or irritation of the throat by habitual smoking of tobacco impairs the integrity of these barriers and predisposes the area to invasion by potentially harmful organisms.
4) Unpublished indicates that respondents' habitual smoking has been surveyed but is not yet released.
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