The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #56469

Shinichi Asahi¹, Ritei Uehara¹, Makoto Watanabe¹, Morihiro Tajimi¹, Izumi Oki¹, Toshiyuki Ojima¹, Yosikazu Nakamura, MD, MPH¹, Shigenori Oguri, MD², Akira Okayama, MD², Yasuhiro Matsumura³, and Hiroshi Yanagawa, Vice President⁴. (1) Department of Public Health, Jichi Medical School, 3311 Yakushiji, Minamikawachi-machi, Tochigi-ken, 329-0498, Japan, +81-285-58-7338, as777@lily.ocn.ne.jp, (2) Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, 19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka, Iwate-ken, 020-8505, Japan, (3) Director of Department of National Nutrition Survey and Health Informatics, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8636, Japan, (4) Saitama Prefectural University, 820 Sannomiya, Koshigaya-shi, Saitama-ken, 343-8540, Japan

Relationship between habits smoking and alcohol drinking was observed using The National Nutrition Survey data in Japan form 1990 through 1995. Data were obtained by a questionnaire using random sampling methods in proportion as Japanese age structure. The questionnaire contained habits of smoking and alcohol drinking. The odds ratio was calculated with respect to whether one habit would affect to the other, adjusting age by sex. The proportions of current smokers were 49.1% among men and 9.5% among women. Those of habitual alcohol drinker were 49.1% and 6.3%, respectively. Former smokers tended to be former drinkers (ORs for men=6.77 and women=24.11), and current smokers tended to be habitual drinkers (ORs for men=4.11 and women=7.11). Heavy drinkers were more likely to be heavy smokers among women (ORs=45.44) than among men (ORs=7.07). Former alcohol drinkers were more likely to be former smokers among women (ORs=24.11) than among men (ORs=6.77) as well. We concluded that both habits have some tendency to own the other habit, and who abandoned one of the habits tended to take off the other. Additionally, we could make it clear that both heavy habits were likely to be accompanied each other. This bad attitude was observed especially among women.

Learning Objectives:

• Recongnize the tendency that habits of smoking and alcohol drinking are accompanied each other

Keywords: Tobacco, Alcohol

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.