In their innovative article, Gundersen et-al. (2009) explore the relationship between smoking menthol cigarettes and smoking cessation in Hispanic, black and white Americans. Despite the growing secularization of public education, media and government in American society, religion has repeatedly been shown to have a surprisingly strong inverse association with cigarette smoking (Gillum 2005). It may also be related to smoking cessation (Gillum et al. 2009). Religious involvement may be associated with social support, which may be associated with smoking cessation (Krause 2006; Lawhon et al. 2009). Yet it is rarely controlled for in studies of smoking. Unfortunately, Gundersen et al. likely had no information on religion in their data set. To determine whether religion is a potential confounderof the association reported by Gundersen et al. (2009), the relationship of frequency of attendance at religious services (FARS) and smoking menthol cigarettes in non-Hispanic (NH) black, NH white and Mexican American smokers was examined in another national health survey performed in 2005-2006 (Yeager and Krosnick 2010), as described below.
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机译：Gundersen等人在其创新文章中。 （2009年）探讨了在西班牙裔美国人，黑人和白人中吸烟薄荷醇香烟与戒烟之间的关系。尽管在美国社会中，公共教育，媒体和政府的世俗化日益加剧，但宗教已被反复证明与吸烟具有惊人的强烈反关联（Gillum 2005）。这也可能与戒烟有关（Gillum等，2009）。宗教参与可能与社会支持有关，而社会支持可能与戒烟有关（Krause 2006; Lawhon et al。2009）。然而，在吸烟研究中很少有人控制它。不幸的是，Gundersen等。他们的数据集中可能没有有关宗教的信息。确定宗教是否是Gundersen等人报道的该协会的潜在混杂因素。 （2009年），在2005-2006年进行的另一项全国健康调查中，研究了非西班牙裔（NH）黑人，NH白人和墨西哥裔墨西哥烟民参加宗教仪式（FARS）的频率与吸烟薄荷烟的关系（Yeager和Krosnick 2010），如下所述。
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