|
KMID : 1170320110170010127
|
|
Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy
2011 Volume.17 No. 1 p.127 ~ p.144
|
|
|
An Empirical Analysis of Causality Relationship between Quitting Smoking and Obesity
|
|
Hong Seong-Hoon
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
This paper investigates how quitting smoking influences obesity using 2005 National Health and Nutrition Survey data. Estimation results considering both caloric intake adjusted for activity level and smoking as exogenous variables reveal that smokers have higher body mass index(BMI), waist circumstances(WC) and obesity rate than nonsmokers. However, the negative effects of smoking on BMI, WC and obesity rate disappear after controlling for their potential endogeneity. The results employing smoking variable classified in detail according to nonsmoking periods show that BMI and WC increase gradually as smokers quit smoking but they seem to decrease one year after smoking cessation, eventually returning to the level of smoking periods. Only those who have quit smoking for one to five years are likely to have higher obesity rate than current smokers. These results imply that smokers do not have to worry about being obese in deciding smoking cessation since it increases obesity temporarily if it does.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Quitting Smoking, Body Mass Index, Obesity
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|