Early-life characteristics and educational disparities in smoking

Educational inequalities in adult health outcomes are well-established, but it remains unclear when and how these disparities emerge across the life course. We use the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS) to examine the links between early-life characteristics (cognitive, social and emotional, familial, peer, socioeconomic, school- and health-related) and emergent disparities in smoking. We examine whether characteristics from childhood explain...