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Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, and places these data in economic, political, social, and cultural contexts. Lillard and Christopoulou's work is a unique and necessary text in its comparative life-course approach, making it a long overdue complement to the existing literature.

Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Smoking rates are declining very slowly in advanced countries, and they are increasing in the developing world. Yet, researchers still do not fully understand what drives smoking decisions. Life-Course Smoking Behavior presents smoking trajectories of different generations of women and men from ten of the world's most visible countries, with nation-specific representative samples spanning more than eighty years of recent history.