title: [The influence of social-demographic attributes on tobacco smoking by elderly people].
abstract: The quitting of tobacco smoking has advantageous influence on morbidity and mortality in each age. A reduction of deaths for cardiovascular reasons in the earliest. The research has taken over a random sample of people aged 65 and more, living in Łódź- Górna district. The 57.4% turnout to the research enabled to obtain data from 828 people (288 men and 540 women). The respondents were 71.5 +/- 5.1 years old on average. The tool of the research was the interview questionnaire including smoking tobacco related questions. The research was conducted within CINDI WHO Program in 2002. In the big city population the elderly people smoking frequency was 10.8%, while there were 9.5% of regular smokers. Twice as many men than women at the same age were smoking tobacco (16.6% vs. 7.8%). The percentage of heavy smokers was 44.3%. The proportion of regular smokers diminished together with the age and one observed a drop of the average number of cigarettes smoked. One stated that the age and sex are the strong predicators of smoking whereas the high of income and self-appreciation of health state have no influence on smoking by elderly people. The smoking frequency of elderly people living in the city environment is quite high, especially within men 65-75 aged.
authors.affiliation: Katedra Medycyny Społecznej i Zapobiegawczej, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi. agerst@go2.pl
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gerstenkorn
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Drygas
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suwała
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data