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The effects of smoking on obesity: evidence from Indonesian panel data

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Title
The effects of smoking on obesity: evidence from Indonesian panel data
Published in
Tobacco Induced Diseases, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12971-015-0064-5
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Kitae Sohn

Abstract

It has been known that smoking is negatively related to weight-related outcomes. However, it has been difficult to determine whether the relationship is causal, and if so, how strong it is. We attempted to estimate the approximately causal effects of smoking on weight, body mass index (BMI), and obesity. The Indonesian Family Life Survey provided a sample of over 9000 men aged 15-55 years-each of them was observed in 1993, 1997, 2000 and 2007. The preferred method was a fixed effects model; that is, we related changes in smoking status or smoking intensity to changes in weight-related outcomes, while controlling for time-varying covariates. We also compared these results to those estimated by ordinary least squares and assessed the importance of controlling for time invariant individual heterogeneity. Although the effects of smoking were precisely estimated in a statistical sense, their size was minuscule: a quitter would gain weight by at most 1 kg, or a smoker would lose weight by the same amount. The results were similar for BMI and obesity. When we did not control for time invariant individual heterogeneity, the size of the relationship was overestimated at least three times. Smoking exerted little influence on weight, and it was important to control for bias stemming from time invariant individual heterogeneity.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 23%
Student > Bachelor 8 20%
Student > Master 6 15%
Other 2 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 23%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 14 35%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2015.
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#15,169,949
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#295
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#199,229
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Outputs of similar age from Tobacco Induced Diseases
#5
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