Passive Smoking at Home by Socioeconomic Factors in a Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA2010

Overview

Journal J Epidemiol

Specialty Public Health

Date 2018 Mar 6

PMID 29503385

Citations 2

Authors

Minh Nguyen

Nobuo Nishi

Aya Kadota

Nagako Okuda

Hisatomi Arima

Akira Fujiyoshi

Yasutaka Nakano

Takayoshi Ohkubo

Hirotsugu Ueshima

Akira Okayama

Katsuyuki Miura

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Abstract

Background: Long-term passive exposure to cigarette smoke has been reported to affect the health of non-smokers. This study aims to investigate the relationships among socioeconomic factors and passive smoking at home in the non-current smokers of a representative sample from a general Japanese population.

Methods: Data are from NIPPON DATA2010. Among 2,891 participants, 2,288 non-current smokers (1,763 never smokers and 525 past smokers) were analyzed in the present study. Cross-sectional analyses were performed on the relationships among socioeconomic factors and passive smoking at home (several times a week or more) in men and women separately. Socioeconomic factors were employment, length of education, marital status, and equivalent household expenditure. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using a multivariable logistic regression model.

Results: The multivariable-adjusted model showed that employed women had a higher risk of passive smoking than unemployed women (OR 1.44; 95% CI, 1.06-1.96). Women with 9 years or less of education had a higher risk of passive smoking at home than women with 13 years and more of education (OR 2.37; 95% CI, 1.49-3.78). Single women had a lower risk of passive smoking at home (OR 0.53; 95% CI, 0.37-0.77) than married women. No significant associations were observed in men.

Conclusions: An employed status, lower education, and being single were associated with passive smoking at home in the non-current smoking women of a representative Japanese population.

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