Interactions in logistic regression using proc genmod

I have been trying to do logistic regression with interactions. Since this would have required a lot of dummy coding in proc logistic, I used proc genmod.

proc genmod;
class ahsex(ref=first) ah66a qtype &smok_ &alco_;
model jncht= wstrs wstrs*ahsex ahsex ah66a ahage &smok_ &alco_ WLTHINDF QTYPE/ error=bin link=logit type3;
run;

Another way to encode the interaction term and the main effects would be using "wstrs|ahsex". This equals "wstrs wstrs*ahsex ahsex".
The ref option could be replaced with (ref="1") . Specifying more than one REF= variable option in the CLASS statement could be a problem.

In case you are wondering, &smok_ refer to the macro variable I created earlier in the code as follows:
%let &sm0k= smok1 smok2 smok3 smokm;