Cigarette consumption by individuals in Malaysia: a zero-inflated ordered probability approach.
Aim: To investigate cigarette consumption patterns exhibited by non-smokers, occasional smokers, and daily smokers in Malaysia. Subjects and methods: A sample of 4204 individuals from the 2011 Malaysian Global Adult Tobacco Survey is analyzed. A zero-inflated ordered probit model is used to accommod...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 87 - 95 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=120737537&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 120737537 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21981833 NENI jtl: Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) issn: 21981833 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2017 vid: 25 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 120737537 10.1007/s10389-016-0754-3 ppf: 87 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Cigarette consumption by individuals in Malaysia: a zero-inflated ordered probability approach. aug: au: Tan, Andrew Yen, Steven affil: School of Social Sciences , Universiti Sains Malaysia , 11800 Minden Malaysia Department of Agricultural Economics , National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617 Taiwan su: Malaysia Attitude (Psychology) Employment Public officers Race Sex distribution Smoking Socioeconomic factors Economics Labels Smoke Tobacco products Prompts (Psychology) Statistical models Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Attitude (Psychology) Employment Public officers Race Sex distribution Smoking Socioeconomic factors Economics Malaysia Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books) Other printing Packaging and Labeling Services All other miscellaneous store retailers (except beer and wine-making supplies stores) Tobacco and Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers Tobacco product manufacturing Tobacco Manufacturing Cigarette and tobacco product merchant wholesalers Labels Smoke Tobacco products Prompts (Psychology) Statistical models Descriptive statistics keyword: Daily smokers Occasional smokers Smoking status Socio-demographics Daily smokers Occasional smokers Smoking status Socio-demographics ab: Aim: To investigate cigarette consumption patterns exhibited by non-smokers, occasional smokers, and daily smokers in Malaysia. Subjects and methods: A sample of 4204 individuals from the 2011 Malaysian Global Adult Tobacco Survey is analyzed. A zero-inflated ordered probit model is used to accommodate the ordinal nature of smoking outcomes with excessive zero observations of non-smokers. Results: Socio-demographic characteristics are closely associated with consumption patterns of non-smokers, occasional smokers, and daily smokers. Specifically, urbanites, government employees, and Malays exhibit greater tendencies to be daily smokers and lower propensities to be non-smokers than others. Education is a deterring factor in cigarette smoking as higher education up to the tertiary level raises the propensity of being a non-smoker by 8.16 percentage points. The role of ethnicity is highlighted as individuals of Malay and other ethnic backgrounds are more likely to smoke daily, while exhibiting lower propensities of being non-smokers. Males are more likely to engage in occasional or daily smoking than females. Employment in government or non-government sectors increases the probability of daily smoking. Conclusions: Our results suggest the need to include measures to cope with internal or external cues among smokers with specific socio-demographic characteristics. Cessation interventions should focus on daily smokers in urban surroundings with low education levels and those of Malay ethnic origins. Anti-smoking measures in line with occasional smoking may include ameliorating the male attitude toward smoking and policies to prohibit workplace indulgence. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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