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We identified for analysis all individuals aged 16 years or over who had been registered with a THIN practice throughout 2011, and whose record indicated that they were a current smoker, either having a Read code indicative of current smoking recorded during 2011, or in those with no smoking status recorded in 2011, since 1st Oct 2009.
Fertility rates in THIN are very similar to national fertility rates [ 22] and the population prevalence of smoking recorded in THIN has been previously validated at both national and regional levels [ 23, 24].
▪ One limitation is the absence of individual smoking records.
The major weakness in the present study is the absence of individual smoking records.
9 Smoking status was calculated from the CPRD records of smoking status and from searching for smoking records in the patient's history using a Read-code list.
The differences in the proportion of patients with a smoking record in different categories of each measure of deprivation were small and unlikely to have contributed to any great extent to the socio-economic differences in smoking prevalence reported.
However, comparing the proportion of individuals with a smoking record in THIN with that of the HSE, we found a similar distribution suggesting that most smokers were identified in the first year of their registration in primary care.
Current smoking was recorded if the patient was currently smoking or stopped smoking less than a year ago; past smoking if the patient has stopped smoking over a year ago.
Information on smoking was based on smoking history recorded at ages 23y, 33y and 42y [46] and alcohol consumption on report from age 45y.
Individual smoking was measured as the cigarette smoking status recorded at time of diagnosis.
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