Term: Smoking-Status Categories

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2015-05-12

Definition:

In Martens et al. (2015), survey respondents were grouped into one of the following "smoking status" categories:

• current daily smoker (at time of survey),
  
• former daily smoker - recent quitter - (daily smoker five years or less before survey),
  
• former daily smoker - long-time quitter - (daily smoker more than five years before survey),
  
• never a daily smoker (includes occasional smokers and former occasional smokers), and
  
• never smoked.

For more information on how the categories were derived from each different survey, please see the Smoking-Status Categories term and description in the glossary of Martens et al. (2015).

Related terms 

• "Ever Smoked" Category

References 

• Martens P, Nickel N, Forget E, Lix L, Turner D, Prior H, Walld R, Soodeen RA, Rajotte L, Ekuma O. The Cost of Smoking: A Manitoba Study. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2015. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] [Additional Materials] (View)