Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020

Autor:	Robert West, Jamie Brown, Cheryl McQuire, Sharon Cox, Frank de Vocht, Lion Shahab, Emma Beard
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Adult Political participation medicine.medical_specialty Cross-sectional study media_common.quotation_subject education Intention smoking Inequity Cigarette Smoking Cigarette smoking health behaviour Environmental health Voting Surveys and Questionnaires health services administration Tobacco medicine Humans Association (psychology) health care economics and organizations media_common Health inequality business.industry Public health Research Smoking Politics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health behaviour Health equity humanities inequity Cross-Sectional Studies voting health inequality Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 business political participation
Zdroj:	BMC Public Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021) BMC Public Health Cox, S, Brown, J, McQuire, C, de Vocht, F, Beard, E, West, R & Shahab, L 2021, ' Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions : Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 ', BMC Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, 2254 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12304-4
ISSN:	1471-2458
Popis:	Background and aims Cigarette smoking takes place within a cultural and social context. Political views and practices are an important part of that context. To gain a better understanding of smoking, it may be helpful to understand its association with voting patterns as an expression of the political views and practices of the population who smoke. This study aimed to assess the association between cigarette smoking and voting intentions and to examine how far any association can be explained by sociodemographic factors and alcohol use. Methods Pooled monthly representative repeat cross-sectional household surveys of adults (16+) in England (N = 55,482) between 2015 and 2020 were used to assess the association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions, and whether this was accounted for by age, occupational grade, gender, region and alcohol use. Voting intention was measured by asking ‘How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow?’ Respondents chose from a list of the major English political parties or indicated their intention not to vote. Results In adjusted multinomial regression, compared with intending to vote Conservative (majority party of government during the period), being undecided (aOR1.22 [1.13-1.33] Conclusions Controlling for a range of other factors, current as compared with never-smokers appear more likely to intend not to vote, to be undecided, to vote for Labour or a non-mainstream party, and less likely to vote for the Liberal Democrats, compared with the Conservative party.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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