Socioeconomic life course influences on Women’s Smoking Status
Hilary Graham carried out a study to help her incorporate women’s domestic trajectories and also their personal circumstances into analyses of the socioeconomic influences on women’s smoking status in early adulthood. This was a widely influential study which has been replicated many times in the form of a cross-sectional study set in Southampton. The initial sample Hilary Graham used for this study was 8438 women aged between 25-, these women were recruited from 1998-2002 patient lists of general practices.
This study also produced some very influential findings. According to many feminists domestic life course factors contribute to the odds of being a current smoker and former smoker in models that include conventional measures of the socioeconomic life course. Early motherhood, non-cohabitation, and also lone motherhood increase the chances of smoking. From these crucial findings it was concluded that both the conventionally measured socioeconomic life course and the domestic life course contribute separately to the odds of smoking and former smoking, this suggest that life course analyses should incorporate omen’s domestic circumstances as a very important pathway of influence on their chances of smoking in early adulthood.