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Suppose that a recent study found an increase in heart and lung disease among people aged 50-60. further study revealed that, compared to people 20years younger, these individuals tended to smoke more during their young adulthood, because they were not aware of the health effects of smoking at that time. this difference between individuals raised at different times is an example of

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This difference between individuals raised at different times is an example of "cohort effect".

The term cohort effect is utilized in sociology to depict varieties in the qualities of a territory of study after some time among people who are characterized by some mutual temporal experience or basic life experience, for example, year of birth, or year of exposure to radiation etc.

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