Failing to Account for Age Cohort Effects in Smoking Prevalence

question 11

Multiple Choice

Failing to account for age cohort effects in smoking prevalence may:

• A) obscure the fact that older cohorts had higher prevalence of smoking in comparison to younger cohorts.
• B) obscure the fact that there had been a shift in the age of onset for lung cancer toward earlier ages.
• C) obscure the differences in smoking prevalence for males and females, and by level of education.
• D) obscure the fact that there had been a shift in the age of onset for lung cancer toward earlier ages as well as the differences in smoking prevalence for males and females, and by level of education.

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