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Table 4.

The impact of years of smoking cessation on mortality in past smokers for the full sample (n=329) and by age group (Israel, 1989–1992).

	Full sample	75–84	85–94
	n= 329	n= 210	n= 119
χ ² ₍₁₎	14.059^***	10.922^**	4.224^*
Hazard Ratio (CI)
Years of smoking	.986(.979–.993)^***	.983(.972–.993)^**	.987(.975–1.000)^*
cessation

Adjusted for age, gender (vs. female), place of birth (Europe vs. Israel, East vs. Israel), marital status (vs. single), income (vs. no additional income), education, having children, health (subjective health and #medications) and ADL.

Hazard Ratio= Exp(b); CI= Confidence Interval;

p ≤ .05,

^**

p ≤ .01,

^***

p ≤ .001