Parental transmission of smoking among middle-aged and older populations in Russia and Belarus

Alexi Gugushvili (), Martin McKee, Aytalina Azarova, Michael Murphy, Darja Irdam and Lawrence King
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Alexi Gugushvili: University of Oxford
Martin McKee: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Aytalina Azarova: University of Cambridge
Michael Murphy: London School of Economics and Political Science
Darja Irdam: University of Cambridge
Lawrence King: University of Cambridge

International Journal of Public Health, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, No 6, 349-358

Abstract: Abstract Objectives The very high rates of smoking among men and the rapid changes among women in the Post-Soviet countries mean that this region offers an opportunity to understand better the intergenerational role of parental influences on smoking. Methods In this study, we exploit a unique data set, the PrivMort cohort study conducted in 30 Russian and 20 Belarusian towns in 2014–2015, which collects information on behaviours of middle-aged and older individuals and their parents, including smoking. We explored the associations between smoking by parents and their offspring using multiply imputed data sets and multilevel mixed-effect Poisson regressions. Results Adjusting for a wide array of social origin, socio-demographic, and socio-economic variables, our analysis suggests that sons of regularly smoking fathers have prevalence ratios of 1.35 [95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.21–1.50] and 1.39 (CI 1.23–1.58) of smoking, while the figures for daughters of regularly smoking mothers are 1.91 (CI 1.40–2.61) and 2.30 (CI 1.61–3.28), respectively, in Russia and Belarus. Conclusions Intergenerational paternal and maternal influences on smoking should be taken into account in studies seeking to monitor the rates of smoking and the impact of tobacco control programmes.

Keywords: Intergenerational transmission; Smoking; Demographic cohort study; Russia; Belarus; Multilevel Poisson analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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