Term: Smoking-Status Categories

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)