TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Ecological level analysis of the relationship between smoking and residential-fire mortality
JO  - Injury prevention
A1  - Diekman, Shane T.
A1  - Ballesteros, Michael F.
A1  - Berger, L. R.
A1  - Caraballo, R. S.
A1  - Kegler, Scott R.
SP  - 228
EP  - 231
VL  - 14
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2007.017004
ID  - ref1
ER  -