Key findings from the 2009 New Zealand ... - Ministry of Health
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Glossary<br />
Age standardisation<br />
Casual smoker<br />
Current smoker<br />
Daily smoker<br />
Ever smoker<br />
Ex-smoker<br />
Logistic regression<br />
Manufactured cigarette<br />
Nicotine replacement<br />
<strong>the</strong>rapy<br />
Ninety-five percent<br />
confidence interval<br />
Non-smoker<br />
NZDep2006<br />
A procedure for adjusting prevalence rates to minimise <strong>the</strong> effects <strong>of</strong><br />
differences in age composition when comparing rates for different<br />
populations (Last 1988).<br />
Someone who smokes less <strong>of</strong>ten than once per month.<br />
Someone who has smoked more than 100 cigarettes in <strong>the</strong>ir lifetime<br />
and at <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> survey was smoking at least once a month<br />
(World <strong>Health</strong> Organization 1998).<br />
Someone who has smoked more than 100 cigarettes in <strong>the</strong>ir lifetime<br />
and currently smokes at least once a day.<br />
Someone who has ever smoked cigarettes or tobacco at all<br />
(including cigars and pipes), even just a few puffs.<br />
Someone who has smoked more than 100 cigarettes in <strong>the</strong>ir lifetime<br />
and at <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> survey had not smoked for at least a month.<br />
A statistical model describing an individual’s risk (eg, <strong>of</strong> being a<br />
smoker) as a function <strong>of</strong> one or more risk factors (eg, age, ethnicity,<br />
neighbourhood deprivation).<br />
A cylinder <strong>of</strong> finely cut tobacco rolled in paper using mechanical<br />
production line techniques and sold in packets <strong>of</strong> 20 or more. Also<br />
known as a tailor-made, ready-made or factory-made cigarette.<br />
Nicotine replacement <strong>the</strong>rapy (NRT) is <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> various forms <strong>of</strong><br />
nicotine delivery methods intended to replace nicotine obtained <strong>from</strong><br />
smoking or o<strong>the</strong>r tobacco usage. NRT includes patches, gum and<br />
lozenges. These products work by reducing <strong>the</strong> intensity <strong>of</strong> nicotine<br />
withdrawal symptoms through replacing some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nicotine a<br />
smoker usually gets <strong>from</strong> cigarettes (The Quit Group <strong>2009</strong>).<br />
A range <strong>of</strong> values for a prevalence rate, which has a 95% probability<br />
<strong>of</strong> including <strong>the</strong> true value <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> prevalence (Last 1988).<br />
Someone who at <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> survey did not smoke at all. Nonsmokers<br />
include:<br />
ex-smokers (people who were formerly current smokers but at <strong>the</strong><br />
time <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> survey did not smoke at all)<br />
people who have not smoked more than 100 cigarettes in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
lifetime<br />
never smokers.<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> Index <strong>of</strong> Deprivation 2006 (NZDep2006) is used in<br />
this report as a measure <strong>of</strong> neighbourhood socioeconomic<br />
deprivation and as a proxy for individual socioeconomic position.<br />
The NZDep2006 is an area-based index <strong>of</strong> deprivation that<br />
measures <strong>the</strong> level <strong>of</strong> socioeconomic deprivation for each<br />
neighbourhood (meshblock) using nine census variables (Salmond<br />
et al 2007). More details can be found in <strong>the</strong> methodology section.<br />
108 Tobacco Use in <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>