Explaining Social Class Inequalities in Smoking: The Role of Education, Self-Efficacy, and Deprivation.

Rates of smoking have decreased dramatically in most Northern European countries over the last 50 years or so, but manual working class groups are substantially more likely to smoke daily than are the professional and managerial classes. This article examines three hypotheses about the processes pro...

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Published in:	European Sociological Review Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 399 - 411
Main Authors:	Layte, Richard, Whelan, Christopher T.
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / UK August 2009
Subjects:	Smoking & society Social classes Europe
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost