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Exploring the seasonality of cigarette-smoking behaviour

Tobacco Surveillance and Evaluation Research Program, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health, New Jersey, USA

Correspondence to:
D Momperousse
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health, Tobacco Surveillance & Evaluation Research Programme, 317 George Street, New Brunswick 08901, USA; momperda@umdnj.edu

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Seasonality has become a factor in the once-stable tobacco industry ... with so many indoor smoking bans right across the country; smokers have more chance to smoke in the warm-weather months.—John Barnett, CEO of Rothmans Inc

Seasonality has been shown to influence cigarette sales during certain times of the year.^1–3 Although seasonality is a relevant issue to tobacco control, little research has explored factors that contribute to seasonality.^1,3,4 Some of the proposed reasons for seasonal effects include tax increases, weather conditions and timing of quitting efforts (eg, New Year’s resolutions).^1–3 Thus, we further examined factors believed to contribute to the effect of seasonality on cigarette consumption.

Monthly cigarette sales were obtained from the New Jersey Department of Revenue for fiscal years 1999–2006, and data on monthly weather patterns were obtained from the office of the New Jersey State Climatologist for the same period. We conducted a stepwise multilinear regression to . . . [Full text of this article]