Citation

Diekman ST, Ballesteros MF, Berger LR, Caraballo RS, Kegler SR. Inj. Prev. 2008; 14(4): 228-231.

Affiliation

Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA. sdiekman@cdc.gov

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/ip.2007.017004

PMID

18676780

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between tobacco smoking and residential-fire mortality and to investigate whether this association is explained by the confounding effects of selected socioeconomic factors (ie, educational attainment and median household income). DESIGN: An ecological analysis relating state-level residential-fire mortality to state-level percentages of adults who smoke was conducted. Negative binomial rate regression was used to model this relationship, simultaneously controlling for the selected socioeconomic factors. RESULTS: After educational attainment and median household income had been controlled for, smoking percentages among adults correlated significantly with state-level, population-based residential-fire mortality (estimated relative rate for a 1% decrease in smoking = 0.93; 95% CI 0.89 to 0.97). CONCLUSIONS: Mortality from residential fires is high in states with high smoking rates. This relationship cannot be explained solely by the socioeconomic factors examined in this study.

Language: en