Indoor smoking bans in Bulgaria, Croatia, Northern Cyprus, Romania and Turkey

ObjectiveThis study tests whether exposure to state antismoking media campaigns is associated with increased support for comprehensive bans on smoking indoors and cigarette advertising.MethodsWe combine commercially available data on market-level state-sponsored antismoking advertisements with three waves of the Current Population Survey’s Tobacco Use Supplement to test the relationship between market-level volume of state antismoking advertising exposure and support for tobacco control policy between 2001 and 2002. We use logistic regression to assess which message themes employed in the advertisements are associated with increased support for tobacco control policy.ResultsThe overall market-level volume of exposure to state antismoking ads targeted to adults or the general population was associated with significant increases in support for comprehensive indoor smoking bans. These effects were driven by exposure to ads emphasising the health consequences of smoking to others, anti-industry appeals and irrationality/addiction appeals. Evidence of campaign impact on support for tobacco advertising bans was less clear and, when statistically significant, small in magnitude relative to the impact of the state economic and tobacco control policy environment.ConclusionsThis study shows that that large-scale antismoking media campaigns can have a meaningful secondary impact on support for comprehensive indoor smoking bans. Future research should identify the conditions under which mass media campaigns primarily targeting smoking behaviour may influence public support for a variety of other tobacco control policies.

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Factors Influencing Adoption of and Adherence to Indoor Smoking Bans Among Health Disparity Communities

American Journal of Public Health ◽

10.2105/ajph.2013.301735 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 104 (10) ◽

pp. 1928-1934 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Vaughan W. Rees ◽

Robyn R. Keske ◽

Kevin Blaine ◽

David Aronstein ◽

Ediss Gandelman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Disparity ◽

Smoking Bans ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Indoor Smoking

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Uniformly Protecting U.S. Workers from the Health Risks of Second-Hand Smoke Exposure

Policy Perspectives ◽

10.4079/pp.v13i1.4141 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Kara Danielle Majkut Ryan

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Risks ◽

Second Hand Smoke ◽

Smoking Bans ◽

Public Places ◽

Second Hand Smoke Exposure ◽

Interest Group Politics ◽

Group Politics ◽

Health Legislation ◽

Indoor Smoking

A preponderance of evidence conclusively demonstrates the severe health risk posed by secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). While this evidence has led to the passage of indoor smoking bans in office buildings and many other indoor public places, in many states, workers in the hospitality industry still face toxic second-hand smoke every time they go to work. This article argues that policymakers must develop comprehensive smoke-free legislation for all indoor public spaces, including all indoor workplaces. Contrary to the arguments put forth by restaurant and tobacco industry interest groups, indoor smoking bans significantly diminish public health risks, provide equitable protection for all workers, increase healthcare and productivity savings, and have minimal, if any, negative economic impact on businesses and overall tax revenues. Washington D.C.'s experience illustrates how policymakers can pass this vital public health legislation despite procedural roadblocks and interest group politics.

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Complete Workplace Indoor Smoking Ban and Smoking Behavior among Male Workers and Female Nonsmoking Workers’ Husbands: A Pseudo Cohort Study of Japanese Public Workers

BioMed Research International ◽

10.1155/2014/303917 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Takahiro Tabuchi ◽

Takahiro Hoshino ◽

Hitomi Hama ◽

Kayo Nakata-Yamada ◽

Yuri Ito ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Cross Sections ◽

Smoking Behavior ◽

Smoking Ban ◽

Age Group ◽

Smoking Bans ◽

Female Workers ◽

Public Workers ◽

Male Workers ◽

Indoor Smoking

A pseudo cohort study using national cross-sections (2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010) was conducted to examine differences in smoking prevalence under different smoking ban policies such as a complete workplace indoor smoking ban (early or recent implementation) and a partial smoking ban among male public workers and husbands of female nonsmoking public workers. The effectiveness of smoking bans was estimated by difference-in-differences (DID) with age group stratification. The results varied considerably by age and implementation period. Although DID estimates (positive value of DID estimate represents smoking cessation percentage) for both smoking bans on total male smoking were not significant, the over-40 age group indicated a significant DID estimate of 5.0 (95% CI: 0.2, 9.8) for the recent smoking ban. For female workers' husbands' smoking, the over-40 age group indicated positive, but not significant, DID estimates for the early and recent smoking bans of 7.2 (−4.7, 19.2) and 8.4 (−2.0, 18.7), respectively. A complete indoor workplace smoking ban, particularly one recently implemented among public office workers aged over 40, may reduce male workers' smoking and female workers' husbands' smoking compared with a partial smoking ban, but the conclusion remains tentative because of methodological weaknesses in the study.

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