Smokers’ family less likely to have access to healthy food
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A new study has found that kids and adults living with adult smokers appear less likely to have daily access to enough healthy food compared with those living with non-smoking adults,
Previous studies have shown that food insecurity is strongly linked to household income.
Since families with at least one smoker spend 2 percent to 20 percent of their income on tobacco, it is likely that smokers are affecting the financial resources needed to provide adequate food.
For the study, Cynthia Cutler-Triggs, M.D., of the New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center, and colleagues analyzed 8,817 households with children age 17 and younger from 1999 to 2002 to see if the presence or absence of adult smokers in the household affected the food security of those living in the home. Age, sex, race of the child and poverty index ratios were also noted.
At least one smoker lived in 23 percent of the children’s households “and 32 percent of children in low-income households lived with a smoker compared with 15 percent of those in more affluent households.”
Fifteen percent of adults and 11 percent of children reported having experienced food insecurity within the last year, with 6 percent of adults and 1 percent of children experiencing severe food insecurity.
“Food insecurity was more common and severe in children and adults in households with smokers,” the authors said.
“Of children in households with smokers, 17 percent were food insecure vs. 8.7 percent in households without smokers,” with rates of severe child food insecurity at 3.2 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively.
“For adults, 25.7 percent in households with smokers and 11.6 percent in households without smokers were food insecure, and rates of severe food insecurity were 11.8 percent and 3.9 percent, respectively,” the authors added.
The researchers found that the highest rates of food insecurity were in children living in low-income households with smokers. Also, compared with white families, black and Hispanic families had higher rates of child food insecurity in both smoking and non-smoking homes.
The study is published in the November issue of Archives of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. (ANI)
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Pam said:
This honestly takes the cake and shows you just how LOW Tobacco Control will stoop to push their agenda. I am LIVID that they would post this crap. As a single mother of a son from age 3 until he was 10 when I married, I can ASSURE YOU that my son never was deprived of ANYTHING. I did without so he would not have to. MY SACRAFICES allowed me to also buy cigarettes. I did not go out to do ANYTHING until my son visited his father 4 days a month. The one luxury I afforded MYSELF was my cigarettes. HOW DARE YOU? Food insecurity? Are you crazy? My son is now happily married, hard working and the father of 2 wonderful little girls. CALL HIM and ASK HIM if he was ever food depraved. You people make me SICK.
November 8th, 2008 at 11:09 am -
virgilk said:
Looks like anti-smoker junk science knows no bounds. They must lay awake nights thinking up more BS to keep the money rolling in to keep them in funds to justify their jobs. Fraud for a living is alive and well.
November 8th, 2008 at 11:45 pm -
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