Pollutants and climatic conditions related to the smoking rate

Smoking is considered a coping behavior for stress. On the other hand, pollutants and climatic conditions are environmental stressors that can have negative impact on health. Therefore, there may be link between regional smoking rate air pollution conditions. To clarify relationship in Japan such as photochemical oxidants concentration, ambient temperature relative humidity, multiple regression analysis was performed. Correlation showed humidity negatively correlated with rate. Stepwise objective variable, explanatory variables, revealed significant independent variables. The above results suggest temperature, region related to region.