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A 70 page expanded version of a much smaller paper researching the hypothesis that smokers in high-stress jobs tend to smoke more in response to stress than do smokers in jobs with lower stress levels. Though there was no existing research with which to guide the study, it still obtains solid and statistically valid results that unquestioningly prove that a smoker's response to a high-stress job is that of smoking more than usual. Existing literature emphasizes the relationship between stress and depression, and also that between smoking and depression. Biochemical and psychological research has concluded that there is a strong relationship between smoking and clinical depression, though it is unclear which contributes to the other. This survey does not specifically address depression, but it does give valuable insight to the relationship of stress-related smoking and workplace stress. Includes 4 charts and 4 tables. Bibliography lists 72 sources.
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70 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSstress.doc
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where they smoke, how much they smoke, what keeps them smoking in the face of all of the research that shows they should not. There are studies on teen
smoking, adult smoking, older adult smoking, the effects of smoking bans in the workplace, the effects of second-hand smoke and the effects of smoking during pregnancy. There is that
faction that seems to be unable to quit regardless of the effort they either do or do not put into the activity. Mark
Twain is credited with having said of quitting smoking, "Quittings easy. Ive done it thousands of times." Since 1988 the American Psychiatric Association has recognized nicotine dependence and
withdrawal as separate disorders, legitimizing the experience of the millions who have tried, successfully and otherwise, to permanently stop smoking while onlookers from all fields told them just to use
more willpower (Sherman, 1994). But no one seems to have investigated whether there is a connection between work stress and smoking frequency. Objectives (Hypotheses)
We hypothesize that smokers holding stressful jobs smoke more than smokers who have less stressful ones. While workplace smoking
bans are commonplace today, full bans normally are found primarily in large corporations and hospitals. Any hospital intending to remain an accredited facility must enforce all indoor areas as
being smoke-free (Longo, Brownson and Kruse, 1995), and large corporations are the ones most noted by OSHA while employing higher numbers of non-smokers. Several studies (Anonymous, 1994; Henderson, 1994;
Anonymous, 1995) have indicated that employees in facilities that are designated as smoke-free do not indulge in compensatory smoking off the job, that many of them have reported that the
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