Department of Sociology, The George Washington University, 801 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Int J Public Health. 2010 Jun;55(3):167-75. doi: 10.1007/s00038-009-0101-3. Epub 2009 Dec 23.
This study explores differences in who smokes (smoker type) and exposure to smoking (pack-years) between Canada and the US. Both countries have policies to limit the number of smokers and smoking-related deaths.
This research uses The Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health (JCUSH) and employs multinomial logistic regression and ordinary least squares regression.
In Canada, native-born, young, White males without a degree, with poor health and who had been previously married predominate in smoking. This profile is the same for the US. However, different characteristics predict exposure to smoking for the two countries. Native-born males without a degree, with poor health and who had been previously married smoked more cigarettes per day in Canada. For the US, younger individuals smoked more cigarettes per day.
If countries want to focus on limiting the number of new cases of smokers, the target population is different from the target population that should be used if countries are interested in converting smokers into non-smokers, based on the demographic analyses presented.
本研究旨在探讨加拿大和美国之间在吸烟人群（吸烟者类型）和吸烟暴露量（吸烟包年数）方面的差异。这两个国家都有政策来限制吸烟者数量和与吸烟相关的死亡人数。
本研究使用了加拿大/美国联合健康调查（JCUSH），并采用多项逻辑回归和普通最小二乘法回归。
在加拿大，以本地出生、年轻、白人、男性、没有学位、健康状况不佳和曾经离婚为特征的人更倾向于吸烟。这与美国的情况相同。然而，不同的特征预测了这两个国家的吸烟暴露量。在加拿大，没有学位、健康状况不佳和曾经离婚的本地出生男性每天吸烟的数量更多。而在美国，年轻的个体每天吸烟的数量更多。
如果各国希望重点限制新烟民的数量，那么根据呈现的人口统计分析，目标人群与那些希望将吸烟者转变为非吸烟者的目标人群是不同的。
