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Prevelance of smoking and the social approach to health

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Part (a) Summarise what the information in Table 1 tells us about the prevalence of cigarette smoking amongst different parts of the population of Great Britain. The evidence from Table 1 illustrates that for all people, regardless of socio-economic groupings, cigarette smoking is prevalent in men rather than women and this was the case for both time periods in question, however the differences are very small. For example just 2% more men smoked than women in 2001/02 and in 2004/05 the difference was 3%; however it should also be noted that over these time periods cigarette smoking for both men and women decreased from the figures shown in 2001/02 to those in 2004\05. This pattern was the same for 4 out of 6 of the socio-economic groups; they all showed decreased rates of between 4% and 10%. The managerial and professional group for men stayed at 57% at both time stages, although...

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