The empirical relationship between community social capital and the demand for cigarettes
研究发现，社区中来自宗教团体的社会资本比例与吸烟者的香烟消费量呈强烈负相关，但与吸烟率无关。该结果对研究社会资本与健康行为的学者有参考价值。
We show that the proportion of community social capital attributable to religious groups is inversely and strongly related to the number of cigarettes that smokers consume. We do not find overall community social capital or the proportion of community social capital attributable to religious groups to be related to the overall prevalence of smoking. Using a new validated measure of community social capital, the Petris Social Capital Index and three years (1998-2000) of US data on 39 369 adults, we estimate a two-part demand model incorporating the following controls: community-level fixed effects, price (including excise taxes), family income, a smuggling indicator, nonsmoking regulations, education, marital status, sex, age, and race/ethnicity.