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Social class and adolescent smoking behaviour

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  • Glendinning, Anthony
  • Shucksmith, Janet
  • Hendry, Leo

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The paper examines class based differences in smoking behaviour in middle and later adolescence. The analyses are based on questionnaire survey data drawn from a longitudinal study of adolescent socialisation, leisure and lifestyles in Scotland. Perhaps surprisingly, the social class of the family is found to have little relationship to smoking in middle and later adolescence. By contrast, marked variations in smoking are evident with respect to the current socio-economic position occupied by young people themselves in middle and later adolescence. The connections between smoking, social class background, and current social class position are examined through a consideration of inter-generational occupational mobility, and once more a clear pattern of differences is found. Thus, we conclude that there is an emergent pattern of class based differences in adolescent smoking behaviour, as young people make the transition towards adulthood. We consider the possible role that factors from the family, the peer group, and the school contexts may play in the production of these differences in smoking behaviour. We also highlight the importance that our findings may have for the health inequalities debate, and particularly for explanations which link the production of class based differences in health to processes of inter-generational mobility.

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  • Glendinning, Anthony & Shucksmith, Janet & Hendry, Leo, 1994. "Social class and adolescent smoking behaviour," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 38(10), pages 1449-1460, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:38:y:1994:i:10:p:1449-1460
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    1. Stéphane Legleye, 2011. "Violence et milieu social à l’adolescence," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 448(1), pages 159-175.
    2. Alexi Gugushvili & Martin McKee & Michael Murphy & Aytalina Azarova & Darja Irdam & Katarzyna Doniec & Lawrence King, 2019. "Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(1), pages 413-441, January.
    3. Ben Lakhdar, Christian & Cauchie, Grégoire & Vaillant, Nicolas Gérard & Wolff, François-Charles, 2012. "The role of family incomes in cigarette smoking: Evidence from French students," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(12), pages 1864-1873.
    4. Benjamin Kuntz & Thomas Lampert, 2013. "Educational Differences in Smoking among Adolescents in Germany: What is the Role of Parental and Adolescent Education Levels and Intergenerational Educational Mobility?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-18, July.
    5. Andrea Geckova & Jitse Dijk & Johan Groothoff & Doeke Post, 2002. "Socio-economic differences in health risk behaviour and attitudes towards health risk behaviour among Slovak adolescents," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 47(4), pages 233-239, July.
    6. Edoka, I.P., 2012. "Decomposing Differences in Cotinine Distribution between Children and Adolescents from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 12/29, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.

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