Smoking and body weight: evidence from China health and nutrition survey

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Effects of smoking behavior on different level body weight using the logit model

Dependent variable	Effects of current smoker			Effects of number of cigarettes consumed daily
Dependent variable	Coefficient	S.E.	95 % C.I.	Coefficient	S.E.	95 % C.I.
Underweight	0.169***	0.045	(0.08, 0.258)	0.042**	0.016	(0.01, 0.073)
Healthy Weight	0.213***	0.022	(0.17, 0.257)	0.079***	0.008	(0.063, 0.095)
Over weight	−0.263***	0.022	(-0.305, -0.22)	−0.093***	0.008	(-0.109, -0.077)
Obese	−0.275***	0.023	(-0.321, 0.229)	-0.113***	0.01	(-0.133, -0.094)

Note:
** significant at the 5 % level;
*** significant at the 1 % level
Std. errors are robust
Underweight (BMI < 18.5), healthy weight (18.5 < =BMI < 22.9), overweight (23 = <BMI), obese(25 = <BMI)
Socio-economic status, health behaviors as well as demographic characters, year dummy and district dummy are included. The full results are available from the authors upon request

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