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Social Exclusion and Smoking among British Families

Social Exclusion and Smoking among British Families. Alan Marsh Policy Studies Institute. Poverty and ‘markers for disadvantage’. leaving school early, adding no further qualifications or skills; being a tenant, especially a social tenant, income-tested benefits in and out of work;

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Social Exclusion and Smoking among British Families

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  1. Social Exclusion and Smoking among British Families Alan Marsh Policy Studies Institute

  2. Poverty and ‘markers for disadvantage’ • leaving school early, adding no further qualifications or skills; • being a tenant, especially a social tenant, • income-tested benefits in and out of work; • being unemployed, often for long or repeated spells; • doing low-aid manual work, or, more often nowadays, the most routine service jobs; • being single, • Being a lone parent, • being ill - not necessarily disabled - being often ill is enough.

  3. Recent trends in social exclusion • Large increases in inequality in income and wealth • Large increase in lone parenthood (7-26%) • Tripling of child poverty (5/10% - to - 30/35%) though lately abated to 20/25% • Slower intergenerational social mobility • Greater residential segmentation

  4. Family status and smoking • Percent who smoke

  5. Housing tenure and smoking • Percent who smoke

  6. Education and smoking • Percent who smoke

  7. Employment status and smoking • Percent who smoke

  8. Smoking and hardship • Percent in severe hardship

  9. Quitting: starting positions

  10. Changes in hardship and changes in smoking Percent of 1999 low-income smokers who were not smoking in 2003..........

  11. Holding starting positions constant, what factors independently influenced low-income mothers to quit or continue smoking after 5 years? • Positive predictors: • Better educated • Male lone parent • Being a female lone parent and choosing a non-smoker as her new partner.... • Negative predictors: • Lone parent, especially if injured by last partner • Starting and/or remaining in severe hardship • Becoming a new lone parent • Having a new baby

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