The Prevalence, Trends and Heterogeneity in Maternal Smoking Around Birth Between the 1930s and 1970s
Abstract
This chapter shows the prevalence, trends and heterogeneity in maternal smoking around birth in the United Kingdom (UK), focussing on the war and post-war reconstruction period in which there exists surprisingly little systematic data on (maternal) smoking behaviours. Within this context, the authors highlight relevant events, the release of new information about the harms of smoking and changes in (government) policy aimed at reducing smoking prevalence. The authors show stark changes in smoking prevalence over a 30-year period, highlight the onset of the social gradient in smoking as well as genetic heterogeneities in smoking trends.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the GEIGHEI/ESSGN team for interesting discussions and comments on an earlier version of this paper. This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under Application Number 74002, as well as data provided through www.VisionofBritain.org.uk. It uses historical material which is copyright of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from NORFACE DIAL (462-16-100) and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 851725). For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
Citation
von Hinke, S., James, J., Sorensen, E., Sievertsen, H.H. and Vitt, N. (2024), "The Prevalence, Trends and Heterogeneity in Maternal Smoking Around Birth Between the 1930s and 1970s", Baltagi, B.H. and Moscone, F. (Ed.) Recent Developments in Health Econometrics (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 297), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-227. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0573-855520240000297010
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Copyright © 2024 Stephanie von Hinke, Jonathan James, Emil Sorensen, Hans H. Sievertsen and Nicolai Vitt. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited