title: Smoking by frequency and type of social contact.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare smoking by frequency and type of social contact.
  
  
  METHODS
  Respondents aged 20 years or older from NHANES III were analyzed using multivariate logistic models (N = 15,499).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the levels and types of social contact, frequency of church attendance was the only type of social contact associated with lower likelihood of smoking (OR = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.64, 0.72). Other types of contact were either not associated or were associated with higher probabilities of smoking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Frequent church attendance appears to protect the most from smoking relative to other types of social contact.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107-2699, USA. jstimpso@hsc.unt.edu
authors.forename: Jim P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Stimpson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003367:Cotinine / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012907:Smoking / Q000097:blood / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support
chemical_list: D003367:Cotinine