Smoking, respiratory disease and health service utilisation: the paradox.

摘要: Abstract We compared need for and utilisation of health services among young, healthy smokers who did not want to quit “the non-motivated”, “motivated smokers”, relative never-smokers. This cross-sectional study included 9915 Hong Kong police officers. assessed smoking status, differentiating non-motivated from motivated smokers. Need was measured as the number respiratory symptoms, doctor consultations. All had significantly more but relatively lower utilisation. After adjusting other factors, odds ratio 0.77 (95% CI 0.64–0.93) 0.62 0.50–0.77) non-motivated, never-smokers (p trend