title: Individual and community predictors of maternal smoking in the city of Baltimore: what can be learned from a predominantly minority case controlled study?
abstract: This case control study of 1,000 birth certificates examined what individual and community factors predicted maternal smoking in Baltimore, Maryland. Conditional multinomial logistic regression results indicated women who were White were more likely to start smoking at a young age, but as they got older, they were less likely to smoke. Minority women were more likely to start smoking at a later age. Also, White women were more likely to smoke as the rate of poverty increased, while for minority women, smoking was unrelated to whether they lived in higher or lower poverty areas. Medical assistance status, community education level, and crime rate were not found to be related to smoking status.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0108, USA. acquavsa@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
authors.forename: Shauna P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Acquavita
authors.forename: Bruce R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Deforge
authors.forename: Caroline Long
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Burry
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Boyd
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D015142:Baltimore / Q000453:epidemiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D012923:Social Class; D055815:Young Adult