Population Composition, Public Policy, and the Genetics of Smoking

Author:

Boardman Jason D.1,Blalock Casey L.1,Pampel Fred C.1,Hatemi Peter K.2,Heath Andrew C.3,Eaves Lindon J.4

Affiliation:

1. Department of Sociology and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0327, USA

2. Departments of Political Science, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, 215 Pond Lad, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

3. Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA

4. Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA

Abstract

Abstract In this article, we explore the effect of public policy on the extent to which genes influence smoking desistance. Using a sample of adult twins (nmz = 363, ndz = 233) from a large population registry, we estimate Cox proportional hazards models that describe similarity in the timing of smoking desistance among adult twin pairs. We show that identical twin pairs are significantly more likely to quit smoking within a similar time frame compared with fraternal twin pairs. Importantly, we then show that genetic factors for smoking desistance increase in importance following restrictive legislation on smoking behaviors that occurred in the early and mid-1970s. These findings support the social push perspective and make important contributions to the social demography and genetic epidemiology of smoking as well as to the gene-environment interaction literatures.

Publisher

Duke University Press

Subject

Demography

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