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Association Between Social Isolation and Smoking in Japan and England
Authors
Takaaki Ikeda, Noriko Cable, Masashige Saito, Shihoko Koyama, Taishi Tsuji, Taiji Noguchi, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka, Jun Aida
J-Stage
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/31/10/31_JE20200138/_article
PMC
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8421201/
Highlights
- Social isolation is associated with current smoking status.
- Little is known about varying associations of social isolation with smoking in different countries with tobacco control policies.
- Older people who were not socially isolated were more likely to quit smoking in England than in Japan, explained by the strict tobacco control policies.
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