Despite being newcomers, immigrants often exhibit better health relative to native-born
populations in industrialized societies. We extend prior efforts to identify whether self …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to characterize lifetime tobacco use across two measures
of sexual orientation and six types of tobacco products. Methods: We conducted a cross …

This study assesses retrospective childhood health reports and examines childhood health
as a predictor of adult health. The results suggest that such reports are of reasonable …

Objective To investigate mortality rates, causes of death, time trends in mortality, prognostic
factors for mortality, and the relationship between disease activity and mortality over a 23 …

In this paper, we develop a new direct measure of state anti‐smoking sentiment and merge it
with micro‐data on youth smoking in 1992 and 2000. The empirical results from the cross …

The concept of the socioeconomic lifecourse is increasingly informing understanding of the
social patterning of cigarette smoking. We investigated lifecourse influences on (i) women's …

In this paper we use individual level data from the Australian National Drug Strategy
Household Survey to study the relationship between initiation into cannabis use and …

INTRODUCTION: Although previous studies report an association between erectile
dysfunction (ED) and smoking, few have examined the impact of passive smoke exposure …

This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life
expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information …

In this paper, I introduce new methods for multilevel meta network analysis. The new
methods can combine results from multiple network models, assess the effects of predictors …