Sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic and opioid medicament use and its co-occurrence with tobacco smoking and alcohol risk drinking in a community sample

Table 3 Associations between smoking and alcohol risk drinking with medicament use; multinomial logistic regression analysis

	Comparison group: no medicaments
	SO^a use	Other medicament use
Smokers, risk drinkers
Non smoker, non risk drinker	Ref	Ref
Smoker, non risk drinker	1.0 (0.8–1.4)	0.7 (0.6–0.8)
Non smoker, risk drinker	0.7 (0.4–1.0)	0.9 (0.7–1.2)
Smoker, risk drinker	1.0 (0.4–2.1)	0.7 (0.6–0.8)
Gender
Men	Ref	Ref
Women	2.4 (1.6–3.5)	1.5 (1.3–1.8)
Age (years)
20–39	Ref	Ref
40–59	2.7 (2.1–3.6)	2.3 (2.0–2.5)
60–79	18.3 (13.7–24.6)	11.1 (9.3–13.2)

Odds ratios (95%-confidence intervals).
Current smokers: current cigarette smokers, alcohol risk drinking according to [14],
^a Sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolytics or opioids: ATC groups N01AF, N01AG, N03AA, N05CA, N05CB, N03AE, N05BA, N05CD, N05CF, N05BC, N05CE, N05CM, N05CX, A07DA52, N01AH, N02AA, N02AB, N02AC, N02AD, N02AE, N02AF, N02AG, N02AX, N02CX58 [13] during the past 7 days prior to the health examination.
Ref: Reference category.

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