ПОЧЕМУ НЕ СНИЖАЕТСЯ КУРЕНИЕ У ЖЕНЩИН: РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ МИКРОАНАЛИЗА
WHY THE NUMBER OF SMOKING WOMEN DOES NOT DECREASE: A VIEW FROM THE MICROANALYSIS LEVEL

Summary/Abstract: Tightening of tobacco control policies in the 2010s in Russia for the first time in the post-Soviet period led to a significant decrease in the smoking prevalence. However, this decline mainly affected men. Why are Russian women less responsive to tobacco control policies? Why rising tobacco prices and banning smoking in public places had virtually no effect on female smoking? In this study, an attempt was made to look at smoking at the microlevel in terms of individual and household characteristics. As an empirical base, we used data from the representative national survey — Russian Monitoring of the Economic Situation and Health of the National Research University Higher School of Economics for 2017. The results confirm the hypothesis of a less mature stage of the smoking epidemic among women compared with men: female smoking is still concentrated in relatively more privileged groups, namely in urban areas and particularly in the major cities.

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