Departamento de Economía Aplicada y Métodos Cuantitativos, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jul 11;10:959442. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.959442. eCollection 2022.
Although the detrimental health effects of tobacco, there has been scant research into determining comprehensive profiles to characterize individuals with a higher risk of smoking. This paper identifies such profiles and probabilistically quantifies the effects of certain traits on the decision to smoke in the Canary Islands. This characterization is approached from a broad and novel point of view for the region studied, given that the analysis not only studies sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle and health, but also incorporates mental health. The results show that suffering from some type of psychopathology leads to a higher probability of tobacco consumption. Moreover, just as the promotion of a healthy lifestyle has a direct impact on tobacco consumption, the implementation of public policies that reduce the risks of suffering from a mental illness could also reduce the prevalence of smoking in the region and contribute to the design of more effective prevention strategies.
尽管烟草对健康有不良影响，但对于确定具有更高吸烟风险的个体的综合特征，相关研究甚少。本文旨在确定这些特征，并在加那利群岛概率量化某些特征对吸烟决定的影响。这种特征刻画是从该地区广泛而新颖的角度出发的，因为分析不仅研究了社会人口特征、生活方式和健康，还纳入了心理健康。结果表明，患有某种类型的精神病理学会导致更高的烟草消费概率。此外，正如促进健康的生活方式对烟草消费有直接影响一样，实施减少患精神疾病风险的公共政策也可以降低该地区的吸烟率，并有助于设计更有效的预防策略。
