Feigelman W
Department of Sociology, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York 11530.
Prev Med. 1994 Mar;23(2):235-41. doi: 10.1006/pmed.1994.1032.
This article investigates cigarettes smoking among active military personnel, veterans, and comparable civilian populations.
It is based on secondary analysis of archival data from the General Social Surveys and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth.
Findings were consistent with past research, indicating higher smoking rates for current active military personnel than for civilians. Among men and women who were in their thirties during the early 1980s, findings suggest that military personnel and civilians alike exhibited the same tendency toward cigarette use and initiated smoking at approximately the same ages. General Social Surveys and National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data suggest that military smoking did not appear to be a situational behavior which occurred only during a recruit's tour of duty; results also suggest that previous military experience was associated with higher lifelong patterns of cigarette consumption, compared to those who had never been in the armed services.
This evidence suggests that the military--as the nation's largest employer, with an immense influence upon civilian relations--exerts a force of considerable magnitude thwarting national goals to achieve reduced cigarette consumption.
本文调查现役军人、退伍军人以及类似平民群体中的吸烟情况。
基于对综合社会调查和全国青年纵向调查档案数据的二次分析。
研究结果与过去的研究一致，表明现役军人的吸烟率高于平民。在20世纪80年代初三十多岁的男性和女性中，研究结果表明军人和平民在吸烟习惯上表现出相同的趋势，且开始吸烟的年龄大致相同。综合社会调查和全国青年纵向调查数据表明，军人吸烟似乎并非仅在新兵服役期间出现的一种情境行为；结果还表明，与从未服过兵役的人相比，有过军事经历的人终生吸烟量更高。
这一证据表明，作为美国最大雇主且对平民关系有巨大影响的军队，在阻碍国家降低香烟消费目标方面发挥着相当大的作用。
