Weaver Andrew J, Flannelly Kevin J, Strock Adrienne L
The HealthCare Chaplaincy, New York, NY 10022, USA.
Adolescence. 2005 Winter;40(160):761-76.
An electronic search of Medline and PsycInfo produced 29 studies that specifically investigated the effects of religion on adolescent tobacco use. Independent (religion) and dependent (tobacco use) variables and variables controlled for in statistical analyses were categorized. Twenty-two of the 29 studies reported at least one significant effect of religion on tobacco use, with 31 of 43 separate analyses of religious variables yielding significant negative correlations between religion and tobacco use. Religion was inversely related to all measures of tobacco use (lifetime, occasional, and regular use), but the findings suggest religion's primary effect is its prohibitive influence against ever using tobacco.
对医学期刊数据库（Medline）和心理学文摘数据库（PsycInfo）进行的电子检索，得到了29项专门研究宗教对青少年吸烟影响的研究。对自变量（宗教）、因变量（吸烟行为）以及统计分析中控制的变量进行了分类。29项研究中有22项报告了宗教对吸烟行为至少有一项显著影响，在对宗教变量进行的43项独立分析中，有31项得出宗教与吸烟行为之间存在显著负相关。宗教与所有吸烟指标（终生吸烟、偶尔吸烟和经常吸烟）均呈负相关，但研究结果表明，宗教的主要影响在于其对吸烟行为的禁止作用。
