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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>

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