Smoking Dependence during Economic Crisis the Case of Greece
Abstract
This paper will present the relationship between public warnings and level of smoking dependence during economic crisis for the country with the highest rate of tobacco consumption in European Union (Greece). We deploy a sample of 540 questionnaires analyzed by catreg method. Dependence from smoking is the under examination variable related to a set of variables based on state preventing measures and demographic characteristics of the sample. Four of them (Ban effect on number of cigarettes, Respect on previous measures, possible total ban on entertainment frequency and smoking at closed places) seem to have negative effect on smoking dependence while other two (State insufficiency and discriminations against smokers) have positive. Women seem to be more addicted on the other hand higher educated people along with married people with children are less smoking fond.
Keywords:Â Dependence, Greek crisis, Smoking, State legislation.
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