title: [Smoking and subjective health in Spain].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guallar-Castillón
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Artalejo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Díez Gañán
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramón Banegas Banegas
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lafuente Urdinguio
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: del Rey Calero
mesh_terms: 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