Effects of neighbourhood socioeconomic status and convenience store concentration on individual level smoking
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Objectives: To assess the effects of neighbourhood level socioeconomic status (SES) and convenience store concentration on individual level smoking, after consideration of individual level characteristics. Design: Individual sociodemographic characteristics and smoking were obtained from five cross sectional surveys (1979–1990). Participants’ addresses were geocoded and linked with census data for measuring neighbourhood SES and with telephone yellow page listings for measuring convenience store concentration (density in a neighbourhood, distance between a participant’s home and the nearest convenience store, and number of convenience stores within a one mile radius of a participant’s home). The data were analysed with multilevel Poisson regression models. Setting: 82 neighbourhoods in four northern California cities. Participants: 8121 women and men aged 25–74 from the Stanford heart disease prevention programme. Main results: Lower neighbourhood SES and higher convenience store concentration, measured by density and distance, were both significantly associated with higher level of individual smoking after taking individual characteristics into account. The association between convenience store density and individual smoking was modified by individual SES and neighbourhood SES. Conclusions: These findings are consistent with a growing body of literature suggesting that the socioeconomic and physical environments of neighbourhoods are associated with individual level smoking.
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Several cross-sectional observational studies in both youth and adults have demonstrated positive associations between density of and/or distance to neighborhood tobacco retail outlets and prevalence of smoking.
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- Authors
- Chuang, Y.-C., Cubbin, C., Ahn, D., & Winkleby, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Taipei Medical University (TW)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chuang, Ying-Chih
- ORCID
- Cubbin, Catherine
- Venue
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2005-06-17
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 568-573
- ISSN
- 0141-7681 (ISSN-L)
- 0143-005X
- 1470-2738
- PMC
- PMC1757087
- OpenAlex
- W2037647831
- Cited by
- 295
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 8.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL067731, R01 HL 67731)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Keywords
- neighborhood socioeconomic status, tobacco use, built environment, neighborhood density, individual socioeconomic status
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, California, Commerce, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Poverty Areas, Residence Characteristics, Smoking, Social Class, Socioeconomic Factors, Poisson Distribution
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