Dataset on the prevalence of tobacco smoking in men and women of selected countries whit difference human development

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of human development index (HDI) on tobacco smoking prevalence in men and women of countries which their data about tobacco smoking were available for 2015. Pearson's correlation coefficient and linear regression were used to investigate the association between HDI and all types of smoking, particularly cigarette. Daily smoking and current smoking were used as tobacco smoking indices. The information about prevalence of tobacco smoking and HDI was obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) website and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), respectively. The results showed that there is no statistically significant relationship between HDI and current tobacco smoking in men (B = −0.45_CI 95%: −29.97, 29.06). However, the same association was significant for women (B = 43.87, CI 95%: 24.97–62.78). The results indicated that women in developed countries are more at risk of health effects attributed to tobacco smoking. Countries should focus on socioeconomic factors to prevent the spread of risk factors for non-communicable diseases.


a b s t r a c t
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of human development index (HDI) on tobacco smoking prevalence in men and women of countries which their data about tobacco smoking were available for 2015. Pearson's correlation coefficient and linear regression were used to investigate the association between HDI and all types of smoking, particularly cigarette. Daily smoking and current smoking were used as tobacco smoking indices. The information about prevalence of tobacco smoking and HDI was obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) website and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), respectively. The results showed that there is no statistically significant relationship between HDI and current tobacco smoking in men (

Value of the data
Evaluating the effect of human development index (HDI) on tobacco smoking prevalence among men and women is required for various countries.
In order to avoid the adverse health effect of tobacco smoking, policy-makers need to be focused on socioeconomic factors affecting smoking prevalence.
This study indicated that in order to prevent smoking, action plans should be designed based on different age groups.
This study showed that the lifestyle of women in developed countries is different from those in developing countries, and this increases the risk of non-communicable diseases.

Data
The data required for this study included: the prevalence of tobacco smoking among men and women, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among men and women, and human development index (HDI), (Table 1).
Linear regression was applied to investigate the effect of HDI on the prevalence of smoking among men and women. HDI showed a significant relationship with prevalence of CTS  (Table 2). Despite for men, the prevalence of CCS and DCS among women had a statistically significant relationship with HDI (Table 3).

Study countries description
Tobacco smoking is introduced as a major preventable cause of death and risk factor for cardiovascular diseases [1][2][3][4][5]. Human development index is combined of three parts, including life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling, and gross national income per capita [6,7], and its value is between 0 and 1 [8]. The information about the prevalence of tobacco smoking and HDI was acquired from the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) websites, respectively [8,9]. Due to lack of information for a constant baseline year, only countries were included in this study that their prevalence of tobacco smoking was reported for 2015.

Analytical procedures
In this study, Pearson's correlation and linear regression were used to analyze the possible correlation between indices and the relationship between variables, respectively. All the statistical analyses were performed using STATA 14.