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Gainful employment and health. Smoking habits, use of alcohol and medication. Topics: current employment status and status if not employed; earlier employment; status if part-time employment; professional position; employment in the civil service; limited terms of employment; company size; length of employment; time worked each week with and without overtime; arrangement of working hours, e.g. in changing shifts; characterization of job as physically hard work (scale); noise pollution and risk of accidents at work; computer use at work and number of number of working hours on PC; frequency of work accidents; change of employer or change of occupation due to health reasons; length of unemployment in the last 10 years; opportunities to determine personal pace at work; description of the demands on the current workplace and the job (scale); work satisfaction; smoking permitted at work; frequency of use of alcohol at work by respondent as well as by colleagues; company courses on health questions and personal participation or willingness to participate; emotional and physical stress symptoms after work (scale); fear of the future, concerns and problems in private, occupational and economic area (scale); daily time budget for sleep; well-being after sleeping; adequate leisure time; regularly eating in quiet or under pressure of time; participation in diet; weight; height; type and extent of use of cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco; age at starting use of tobacco; assessment of strength of cigarettes smoked and preferred brand of cigarettes; frequency of attempts to quit smoking; time until relapse to smoking; intents to reduce smoking or stop entirely; assessment of the jeopardy to health from smoking; wish on the part of other persons for an end to smoking; designation of the persons expressing this wish to the respondent; abrupt or gradual reduction of use of tobacco; most important reasons to reduce use of tobacco; personal requests of smokers not to...