[Smoking and subjective health in Spain].
BACKGROUND
To examine the relationship between smoking and subjective health in Spain.


METHODS
Datacome from the 1993 National Health Survey. Analyses were performed with logistic regression, adjusting for the main confounding factors.


RESULTS
Among those less than 25 years, there is a dose-response relationship (p = 0.0001)between cigarette consumption and suboptimal health (fair, pooror very poor health).


CONCLUSIONS
Smoking controlactivities should inform on the worse subjective health of youngsmokers, for whom other effects of tobacco smoking are less relevant because they appear to happen in the distant future.
Guallar-Castillón
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Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Rodríguez Artalejo
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F
Díez Gañán
L
L
Ramón Banegas Banegas
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J
Lafuente Urdinguio
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P
del Rey Calero
J
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology