@article{ref1,
title="Ecological level analysis of the relationship between smoking and residential-fire mortality",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2008",
author="Diekman, Shane T. and Ballesteros, Michael F. and Berger, L. R. and Caraballo, R. S. and Kegler, Scott R.",
volume="14",
number="4",
pages="228-231",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/ip.2007.017004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2007.017004"
}