Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #117450

Timothy T. Brown, PhD¹, Sukyong Seo, MPH¹, Richard M. Scheffler, PhD², and Carlos Iribarren, MD, MPH, PhD³. (1) Petris Center - School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Ave, Suite 525, Berkeley, CA 94720-7380, 510-643-4103, tbpetris@uclink.berkeley.edu, (2) The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets & Consumer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Earl Warren Hall, MC7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, (3) Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612

Objective: To determine the association between community social capital (CSC) and smoking cessation.

Data Sources: 2000 National Health Interview Survey, 2000 American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association (ACCRA) Cost of Living Reports, 1999 County Business Patterns, the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control, and the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation.

Study Design: We estimate two separate logit models of smoking cessation. The first estimates the association of CSC with successful smoking cessation and controls for cigarettes prices, the potential effects of smuggling on cigarette prices, family income, workplace and restaurant nonsmoking regulations, sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, number of past years smoking, and number of past unsuccessful attempts at smoking cessation. The second estimates the association of CSC with current unsuccessful attempts at smoking cessation and controls for the same set of factors as above.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to

• Describe the concept of community social capital.
• Articulate the possible pathways between community social capital and smoking cessation.
• Evaluate their community as to the potential association between community social capital and smoking cessation.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.