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Women, Work-Related Stress, and Smoking

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Book cover Women, Work, and Health

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping ((SSSO))

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Cigarette smoking, marketed to women first as glamorous and later as liberated (Davis, 1987), has become the single greatest threat to the health of women in Western industrialized countries. The prevalence of smoking among women and the health effects of this important risk behavior are reviewed in the first section of this chapter. Research that explores the relationships among work, stress, psychological distress, and women’s smoking, in keeping with the theme of this volume, is then discussed. A model integrating these factors will be presented, and data from the Women and Health Study, a work-site-based investigation of women and work, will be examined in light of this model. In the final section implications of the model for smoking cessation programs in industry will be discussed.

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Chesney, M.A. (1991). Women, Work-Related Stress, and Smoking. In: Frankenhaeuser, M., Lundberg, U., Chesney, M. (eds) Women, Work, and Health. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3712-0_7

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