Re: Award offer

[epirad@mchsi.com]

Ruth,



You provided a self reported case report (n = 1).



Rates of smoking initiation are inversely related to SES



Rates of cessation are positively related to SES



Among smokers, the number of cigarettes smoked is inversely related to SES



Lower education is also inversely associated with smoking



For example, see: 



"Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Challenge of the Gradient." Adler, Nancy 

E., Thomas Boyce, Margaret A. Chesney, Sheldon Cohen, Susan Folkman, Robert L. 

Kahn and S. Leonard Syme, 1994. American Psychologist, 49:15-24.1



Harrell, Joanne S. et al. "Smoking Initiation in Youth: The Roles of Gender, 

Race, Socioeconomics, and Developmental Status." Journal of Adolescent Health. 

1998; 23(5): 271-279.



etc. 



It is of interest that in other areas such as China the opposite occurs, 

historically individuals with higher socioeconomic status smoke more but that 

is changing. 



I have already provided reasons why there may be an inverse association 

between Dr. Cohen's average county smoking rates(and socioeconomic status) and 

average county radon concentrations. 



The location of housing was your implication.  



Regards, Bill

bill-field@iowa.edu

> Is there some implication that low-cost housing is built on radon prongs?  Or 

> that builders seek out low-radon sites for expensive homes?  Or that soemhow 

> people who could afford to move out of high-radon areas moved to low radon areas 

> and let the high-radon areas deteriorate?  Sounds like hogwash to me.

> 

> Re "lower SES = more smoking" 

> 1.  I never smoked because when I started college I couldn't afford cigarettes 

> (I was truly lower SES)

> 2.  The people I know who still smoke are spread across all socioeconomic 

> classes.

> 3.  I LOATHE refrigerated air conditioning!

> 4.  Where I live, everybody uses swamp coolers, which require open windows.

> 5.  Is there actually reliable published data on this?

> 

> Are these two alternatives some effort to have it both ways?

> 

> Ruth

> 

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 

> -- 

> Ruth F. Weiner

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 505-856-5011

> (o)505-284-8406

> 

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