Contact structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations
MRL 14 (2007), 775-779.

In this note we observe, answering a question of Eliashberg and Thurston, that all contact structures on a closed oriented 3-manifold are $C^\infty$-deformations of foliations.

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