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Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020
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 politi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8665625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34895194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12304-4 |
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author | Cox, Sharon Brown, Jamie McQuire, Cheryl de Vocht, Frank Beard, Emma West, Robert Shahab, Lion |
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description | 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] <0.001), intending to vote Labour (aOR1.27 [1.16-1.36] <0.001), to vote “Other” (aOR1.54 [1.37-1.72] <0.001), or not to vote (aOR1.93 [1.77-2.11] <0.001) was associated with higher odds of current relative to never smoking rates. Intending to vote for the Liberal Democrats was associated with a significant lower odds of current smoking prevalence (aOR0.80 [0.70-0.91] <0.001) compared with intending to vote Conservative. 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12304-4. |
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spelling | pubmed-86656252021-12-13 Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 Cox, Sharon Brown, Jamie McQuire, Cheryl de Vocht, Frank Beard, Emma West, Robert Shahab, Lion BMC Public Health Research 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] <0.001), intending to vote Labour (aOR1.27 [1.16-1.36] <0.001), to vote “Other” (aOR1.54 [1.37-1.72] <0.001), or not to vote (aOR1.93 [1.77-2.11] <0.001) was associated with higher odds of current relative to never smoking rates. Intending to vote for the Liberal Democrats was associated with a significant lower odds of current smoking prevalence (aOR0.80 [0.70-0.91] <0.001) compared with intending to vote Conservative. 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12304-4. BioMed Central 2021-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8665625/ /pubmed/34895194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12304-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Cox, Sharon Brown, Jamie McQuire, Cheryl de Vocht, Frank Beard, Emma West, Robert Shahab, Lion Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 |
title | Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 |
title_full | Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 |
title_fullStr | Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 |
title_full_unstemmed | Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 |
title_short | Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: Cross sectional surveys in England 2015-2020 |
title_sort | association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions: cross sectional surveys in england 2015-2020 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8665625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34895194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12304-4 |
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