Job strain and tobacco smoking: an individual-participant data meta-analysis of 166,130 adults in 15 European studies

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  • Katriina Heikkilä
  • Solja T Nyberg
  • Eleonor I Fransson
  • Lars Alfredsson
  • Dirk De Bacquer
  • Bjørner, Jakob
  • Sébastien Bonenfant
  • Marianne Borritz
  • Hermann Burr
  • Els Clays
  • Annalisa Casini
  • Nico Dragano
  • Raimund Erbel
  • Goedele A Geuskens
  • Marcel Goldberg
  • Wendela E Hooftman
  • Irene L Houtman
  • Matti Joensuu
  • Karl-Heinz Jöckel
  • France Kittel
  • Anders Knutsson
  • Markku Koskenvuo
  • Aki Koskinen
  • Anne Kouvonen
  • Constanze Leineweber
  • Thorsten Lunau
  • Ida E H Madsen
  • Linda L Magnusson Hanson
  • Michael G Marmot
  • Martin L. Nielsen
  • Maria Nordin
  • Jaana Pentti
  • Paula Salo
  • Rugulies, Reiner Ernst
  • Andrew Steptoe
  • Johannes Siegrist
  • Sakari Suominen
  • Jussi Vahtera
  • Marianna Virtanen
  • Ari Väänänen
  • Peter Westerholm
  • Hugo Westerlund
  • Marie Zins
  • Töres Theorell
  • Mark Hamer
  • Jane E Ferrie
  • Archana Singh-Manoux
  • G David Batty
  • Mika Kivimäki
  • IPD-Work Consortium
Tobacco smoking is a major contributor to the public health burden and healthcare costs worldwide, but the determinants of smoking behaviours are poorly understood. We conducted a large individual-participant meta-analysis to examine the extent to which work-related stress, operationalised as job strain, is associated with tobacco smoking in working adults.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPloS one
Volume7
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)e35463
ISSN1932-6203
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Research areas

  • Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Europe, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Questionnaires, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Socioeconomic Factors, Stress, Psychological, Workplace, Young Adult

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