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. 2015 Oct 14;15:1053. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2402-1

Table 2.

Association between smoking status (current, former and secondhand smoke (SHS)) and depressive symptoms

Smoking status Depression
No Yes ORa (95 % CI)
N (Weighted %) N (Weighted %)
Men
 Smoking status
 Current
 No exposure to SHS 3,859 (26.6) 470 (29.8) 1.15 (0.86–1.55)
 SHS at home only 526 (3.7) 85 (6.5) 1.42 (0.92–2.18)
 SHS at workplace only 3,120 (26.2) 339 (25.4) 1.13 (0.83–1.54)
 SHS at both home and workplace 525 (5.0) 75 (6.0) 1.03 (0.69–1.55)
 Former
 No exposure to SHS 1,752 (10.0) 156 (8.7) 1.01 (0.72–1.41)
 SHS at home only 68 (0.5) 14 (0.7) 1.27 (0.56–2.88)
 SHS at workplace only 907 (7.3) 84 (6.5) 1.17 (0.79–1.71)
 SHS at both home and workplace 51 (0.5) 3 (0.3) 0.59 (0.16–2.16)
 Never
 No exposure to SHS 1,409 (10.6) 123 (8.1) 1.00 (ref)
 SHS at home only 102 (1.0) 10 (1.0) 1.10 (0.46–2.65)
 SHS at workplace only 889 (7.6) 85 (5.7) 1.12 (0.76–1.64)
 SHS at both home and workplace 96 (1.0) 11 (1.3) 2.05 (0.83–5.10)
Women
 Smoking status
 Current
 No exposure to SHS 630 (4.2) 217 (6.4) 1.25 (1.00–1.56)
 SHS at home only 283 (2.0) 131 (4.4) 1.43 (1.04–1.96)
 SHS at workplace only 214 (1.7) 68 (2.4) 1.26 (0.87–1.83)
 SHS at both home and workplace 142 (1.1) 56 (2.2) 1.57 (0.96–2.55)
 Former
 No exposure to SHS 283 (2.0) 70 (2.3) 1.04 (0.72–1.51)
 SHS at home only 50 (0.4) 17 (0.9) 2.32 (1.04–5.16)
 SHS at workplace only 71 (0.6) 22 (1.0) 1.60 (0.82–3.13)
 SHS at both home and workplace 22 (0.2) 6 (0.3) 1.73 (0.53–5.62)
 Never
 No exposure to SHS 9,932 (56.4) 1,985 (48.8) 1.00 (ref)
 SHS at home only 1,782 (12.0) 459 (14.4) 1.25 (1.08–1.43)
 SHS at workplace only 1,993 (13.3) 373 (11.0) 0.99 (0.84–1.17)
 SHS at both home and workplace 805 (6.0) 191 (5.9) 1.12 (0.99–1.40)

aAdjusted for age, marital status, education, employment status, self-reported stress, self-rated health, alcohol dependence (AUDIT) and past diagnosis of depression by physicians