Life-Course Smoking Behavior

Patterns and National Context in Ten Countries

Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou

Presents smoking data from a life-course perspective
Covers seven generations in ten countries, spanning more than 80 years of history
Places smoking patterns into historical context (economic, social, political)
Uses standardized figures and tables that make for easy comparison
Discusses similarities and differences over time and across generations, genders, and countries
Provokes new hypotheses on the determinants of smoking behavior

Life-Course Smoking Behavior

Patterns and National Context in Ten Countries

Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou

Description

Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Smoking rates are declining very slowly in advanced countries, and they are increasing in the developing world. Yet, researchers still do not fully understand what drives smoking decisions.

Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, with nation-specific representative samples spanning more than eighty years of recent history. To inspire hypotheses on the determinants of smoking behavior, the authors place these data in economic, political, social, and cultural contexts, which differ greatly both across countries at a particular time and over time in a given country.

Though significant research has been conducted on smoking statistics and tobacco control policies, most descriptions of smoking behavior rely on cross-sectional "snapshot" data that do not track individuals' habits throughout their lifespan. Lillard and Christopoulou's work is a unique and necessary text in its comparative life-course approach, making it a long overdue complement to the existing literature.

Life-Course Smoking Behavior

Patterns and National Context in Ten Countries

Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou

Chapter 1. Introduction
Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou

Part 1. The Anglo-Saxon World: Australia, Canada, UK, US

Chapter 2. Smoking in Australia
Dean R. Lillard

Chapter 3. Smoking in Canada
Philip DeCicca and Logan McLeod

Chapter 4. Smoking in the United Kingdom
Rebekka Christopoulou

Chapter 5. Smoking in the United States
Dean R. Lillard

Part 2. Western Europe: Germany, Spain

Chapter 6. Smoking in Germany
Dean R. Lillard

Chapter 7. Smoking in Spain
Ana I. Gil Lacruz

Part 3: Eastern Europe and Asia: China, Russia and Ukraine, Turkey

Chapter 8. Smoking in China
Feng Liu

Chapter 9. Smoking in Russia and Ukraine before, during, and after the Soviet Union
Dean R. Lillard and Zlata Dorofeeva

Chapter 10. Smoking in Turkey
Zeynep Önder

Part 4. Cross-country patterns

Chapter 11. Smoking by men in cross-country perspective
Philip DeCicca, Logan McLeod, and Feng Liu

Chapter 12. Smoking by women in cross-country perspective
Rebekka Christopoulou and Zeynep Önder

Chapter 13. Relative smoking patterns of men and women in cross-country perspective
Dean R. Lillard and Ana I. Gil Lacruz

Appendix A. Description and sources of raw data
Appendix B. Derivation of historical smoking prevalence
Appendix C. Time-line of tobacco-related events by country

Life-Course Smoking Behavior

Patterns and National Context in Ten Countries

Dean R. Lillard and Rebekka Christopoulou

Author Information

Dean R. Lillard, PhD, is a labor economist in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State University and Director of the Cross-National Equivalent File project. He has published articles on health economics in leading scholarly journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Statistics in Medicine, and Social Science and Medicine. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.

Rebekka Christopoulou, PhD, is a labor economist in the Economics Department of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has presented her work extensively at academic conferences, and has published her research in edited books and scholarly journals, including Preventive Medicine, the International Journal of Public Health, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Contributors:

About the contributing authors

Philip DeCicca is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Economics at the Department of Economics of McMaster University. He is also a Research Associate of the Program in Health Economics of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Logan McLeod is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics.

Ana Isabel Gil-Lacruz is Associate Professor in the Department of Business Organization and Management at Zaragoza University, Spain.

Feng Liu is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China.

Zlata Dorofeeva is a Researcher in the Higher School of Economics at the National Research University. She is also a Researcher in the Russian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Sociology, Russia.

Zeynep Önder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Bilkent University, Turkey.