Impact of Smoking and Drinking on Health Risk：Based on The Perspective of SES

• 1、School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081

Abstract：Two kinds of unhealthy lifestyle, which are smoking and drinking, have strong correlation. Many studies found that smoking and drinking were only the proximal factors affecting the health of the population. The remote factor behind it is the socio-economic status of the individual. Based on the perspective of socio-economic status, the paper builds a structural equation model among socio-economic status, smoking and drinking, and health risks. Model verification was carried out for urban residents aged 18 to 60 (excluding students) in CHNS data, and the maximum likelihood estimation method was used to model fitting. The main conclusions of the study are as follows: the higher the socio-economic status is, the lower health risks are; the higher the frequency of smoking and drinking is, the higher health risks are. Higher SES people are more likely to smoke and drink, however, their health risks are not increased accordingly. It means that smoking and drinking are not the main factors of health risk difference in different SES groups.

Keywords： Health management Smoking and drinking Health risk SES