PS285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Industrial Revolution, Low Birth Weight, Harm Reduction
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Lecture 14: warning labels on cigarettes, had to change them periodically as people became desensitized. Age: 17% of canadians 15 years or older are smokers, youth are enticed by flavoured and alternative tobacco products. Still toxic: 66% of males and 77. 5% of females 20-24 report having never smoked. Class: prevention campaigns tend to be most effective for the middle class, not as effective for people of lower class, 1/3 of people who make less than 20 000 dollars were smoking in. Geography: more isolated areas have higher rates. Gender: men smoke more than women, usually for different reasons ex. Ethnicity: aboriginals exhibit some of the highest rates of smoking in canada, recent non-european immigrants are significantly less likely than. Canadian born population to smoke: the longer an immigrant has lived in the country the more likely they are to smoke, unlike the canadian born population, there is no correlation between income and smoking for new immigrants.
