Description
For former smokers 17 years of age or older who smoked at least 100 cigarettes during his/her life, SMREGYRS indicates the how long it has been since she/he smoked cigarettes fairly regularly. Interviewers were instructed to define fairly regularly as "smoking one or more cigarettes on three or more consecutive days" if respondents asked for a definition.
[show more]This variable is from the Smoking section of the 1970 survey. This section was developed to measure changes in smoking habits from year-to-year given the increase interest in the relationships between smoking and health at that time. Information was collected on a variety of tobacco-related behaviors including: increases and decreases in cigarette smoking, changes from one form of tobacco to another, and former cigarette smokers quitting behaviors.
