Occupational gradients in smoking behavior and exposure to workplace environmental tobacco smoke: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

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• Personal Author:
  Burchfiel C ; Diez Roux A ; Fujishiro K ; Landsbergis P ; Stukovsky KDH
• Description:
  OBJECTIVE: This study examines associations of occupation with smoking status, amount smoked among current and former smokers (number of cigarettes per day and lifetime cigarette consumption (pack-years)), and workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) independent from income and education. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional analysis of data from a community sample (n = 6355, age range: 45-84) using logistic and multinomial regression. All analyses were stratified by sex and adjusted for socio-demographic variables. RESULTS: Male blue-collar and sales/office workers had higher odds of having consumed more than 20 pack-years of cigarettes than managers/professionals. For both male and female current or former smokers, exposure to workplace ETS was consistently and strongly associated with heavy smoking and greater pack-years. CONCLUSIONS: Blue-collar workplaces are associated with intense smoking and ETS exposure. Smoking must be addressed at both the individual and workplace levels especially in blue-collar workplaces. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Demography Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Smoke Smokers Tobacco Products Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Attitude Cardiovascular-disease Cardiovascular-function Cardiovascular-system Cigarette-smoking Demographic-characteristics Employee-exposure Employee-health Management-personnel Mathematical-models Office-workers Professional-workers Smoke-inhalation Smoking Statistical-analysis Tobacco Tobacco-smoke Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  136-145
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040305
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2012 Feb; 54(2):136-145
• Contact Point Address:
  Kaori Fujishiro, PhD, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Pkwy (R-15), Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  kfujishiro@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:737498134fd4c1921fc68873b77767cd9ff8d52b0e984441945c7261fca68eb6e90f78c30c5b54cd4e2dd7cdbb3ac676d68f1d5fb28e1c9ced172c853855b4a7
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193235/cdc_193235_DS1.pdf
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