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An investigation into the effect of gender on smoking: Do men smoke more

than women?

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Tobacco smoking is deeply linked to morbidity and mortality. The study pertains to

assessing the gender distribution of the habit of smoking. The research hypothesis is that men

smoke more than women. The study had an observational design and used 1025 participants

of both genders recruited into study by observation at a bus stop to gather the data of one

hundred smokers from both genders. The findings of the study concluded that males smoked

more than females due to sociocultural factors.

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Introduction

As of the year 2015, smoking remained the 2

most implicated risk factor for

premature mortality and disability globally. Since the last decade of 20

century, it has been

responsible for as much as five million deaths each year and the way it contributes to global

illness burden is increasing day by day, more specifically in the developing nations. The

adverse impact of smoking surpasses personal and community health to culminate in huge

economic losses globally due to disability and morbidity as enormous sums of money are

spent on the treatment of smoking-induced diseases (GBD 2015 Tobacco Collaborators,

2017). Compared to non-smokers, smokers find it tough in achieving mental concentration

(Faulkner et al., 2017).

A study on the gender difference in smoking behaviours in an Asian population in

China was done by Chen et al. (2017). The results of the study showed that the current

smoking rate in the sample of population observed for males was 44.8% and for females it

was 2.0% which shows a drastic difference. The study also refers to another investigation in

which the smoking rate was 55.3% for men and 1.9% for women. The study and its results

potentiated the common belief that smoking was predominantly a masculine habit.

Another study on the gender differences in smoking behaviours was published in the

same year but on a population of the United States (Phillips et al., 2017). The study examined

the differences in the usage of tobacco products including cigarettes amongst the various

population groups. The results of the study showed that the percentage of tobacco users

(including cigarette smoking) males and females was 25.2 percent and 15.4 per cent

respectively.

Another research study addressing the smoking differences between members of the

two genders in the contemporary Eastern population was undertaken by Hossain et al. (2017).

Being an observational research, the investigators collected data from a sample of male and

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An investigation into the effect of gender on smoking: Do men smoke more than women? Word Count: 1552 Abstract Tobacco smoking is deeply linked to morbidity and mortality. The study pertains to assessing the gender distribution of the habit of smoking. The research hypothesis is that men smoke more than women. The study had an observational design and used 1025 participants of both genders recruited into study by observation at a bus stop to gather the data of one hundred smokers from both genders. The findings of the study concluded that males smoked more than females due to sociocultural factors. Introduction As of the year 2015, smoking remained the 2nd most implicated risk factor for premature mortality and disability globally. Since the last decade of 20th century, it has been responsible for as much as five million deaths each year and the way it contributes to global illness burden is increasing day by day, more specifically in the developing nations. The adverse impact of smoking surpasses personal and community health to culminate in huge economic losses globally due to disability and morbidity as enormous sums of money are spent on the treatment of smoking-induced diseases (GBD 2015 Tobacco Collaborators, 2017). Compared to non-smokers, smokers find it tough in achieving mental concentration (Faulkner et al., 2017). A study on the gender difference in smoking behaviours in an Asian population in China was done by Chen et al. (2017). The results of the study show ...
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