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| The relationship between religious activities and cigarette smoking in older adults | | Author(s) | Harold G Koenig, Linda K George, Harvey J Cohen |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological sciences and medical sciences, vol 53A, no 6, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp M426-M434 |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Worship ; Tobacco smoking ; Living in the community ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Cigarette smoking and religious activities were assessed in a probability sample of 3968 over 65s living in the community, participating in the Duke Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) survey, for which data collected in 1986, 1989 and 1992 were used. Analyses were controlled for age, race, sex, education, alcohol use, physical health, and in the longitudinal analyses, smoking status at previous surveys. Cross-sectional analyses revealed that participants who frequently attended religious services were significantly less likely to smoke cigarettes at all three surveys. Likewise, elders frequently involved in private religious activity were less likely to smoke. Total amount of smoking was also inversely related to both attendance at religious services and private religious activities. Among those who smoked, the number of cigarettes smoked was inversely related to frequency of attendance at services (1986), to private religious activities (1992), and religious TV/radio (1989 and 1992). Retrospective and prospective analyses revealed that religiously active people were less likely to ever start smoking, not more likely to quit smoking. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990302002 A |
| Classmark | EX: OWL: ETT: K4: 49: 7T |
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