OBJECTIVE This study measured the impact of a local smoke-free air law on wagering at an off-track betting (OTB) facility in Indiana. METHODS Regression analysis was used to compare the trend in per capita amount wagered at an OTB location that went smoke-free to the trend in per capita amount wagered at two comparison OTB locations that continued to permit smoking. Unemployment rate was incl...

INTRODUCTION Smoke-free legislation has been a great success for tobacco control but its impact on smoking uptake remains under-explored. We investigated if trends in smoking uptake amongst adolescents differed before and after the introduction of smoke-free legislation in the United Kingdom. METHODS Prevalence estimates for regular smoking were obtained from representative school-based surve...

OBJECTIVE To measure secondhand smoke levels in workplaces in Guatemala and to compare exposure to levels in other Latin American cities. METHODS Exposure was estimated by passive sampling of vapor phase nicotine using a filter badge. Filters were placed in 1 hospital, 1 school, 2 universities, 1 government building, the airport, and 10 restaurants/bars. In total, 103 filters were deployed (p...

Objectives. This study estimates the contribution of smoke-free workplaces to the recent national declines in cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States. Methods. Nineteen studies of the impact of smoke-free workplaces on workday cigarette consumption were reviewed. The number and cost of cigarettes forgone were calculated and extrapolated to a scenario in which all indoor work ar...

OBJECTIVE To determine if the belief that thirdhand smoke is harmful to children is associated with smoking parents' attitudes, home or car smoking policies, and quitting behaviors. METHODS Data from a national randomized controlled trial, Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, assessed thirdhand smoke beliefs of 1947 smoking parents in an exit survey after a pediatric office visi...

BACKGROUND In 2013, legislation in Vietnam regulated smoking in public areas. Included was a ban on indoor smoking at universities. OBJECTIVE Since awareness and attitude are moderators of the effectiveness of smokefree policy, ou aim was to assess changes in students' knowledge and attitude tosecond hand smoke (SHS) and awareness and support of smoke-free legislation at four Vietnamese unive...

OBJECTIVE To detect any change in exposure to secondhand smoke among primary schoolchildren after implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland in March 2006. DESIGN Comparison of nationally representative, cross sectional, class based surveys carried out in the same schools before and after legislation. SETTING Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 2559 primary schoolchildren (primary 7; mean ag...

Environmental tobacco smoke exposure is an important health risk for small children. The development, spread and evaluation of a national child health-centre-based counselling method targeting environmental tobacco smoke is described. The work progressed in six steps. In a first step, accomplished in 1994, it was found that child health nurses used a limited repertoire of techniques and were di...

For more than 20 years the tobacco industry has considered secondhand smoke to be a threat to its viability. In this article, we describe why secondhand smoke is important to tobacco control and how the tobacco industry's "Latin Project" sought to prevent the creation of smoke-free workplaces and public places in Central and South America. Eliminating secondhand smoke exposure not only reduces ...