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Tedrow, Lucky M. Pendergast, Philip |
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The Relationship Between Veteran Status and Smoking Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011. Also: http://paa2011.princeton.edu/mobile/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=112314 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Veterans Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. About 10-12% of young men have served a term in the military. However, we know rather little about the consequences of military service for the lives of those who serve. In this paper, we provide estimates of the relationship between peacetime military service during the All-volunteer Era (AVE) and smoking behaviors using data taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of 1979 (NLSY-79). Ever smoking and continued smoking by veterans are strongly related to multiple dimensions of poor health (Bondurant and Wedge 2009; Cornfield, Haenszel, Hammond, Lilienfeld, Shimkin and Wynder 2009; Wynder 1988). Using multivariate logistic regression with numerous controls for selectivity into the military, we find that veterans of active-duty military service are similar to veterans of reserve duty on ever having smoked and that veterans of active duty military service are less likely to stop smoking. Both social and institutional influences are offered as potential reasons for the differences. |
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Tedrow, Lucky M. and Philip Pendergast. "The Relationship Between Veteran Status and Smoking." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011. |