Association between smokefree laws and voluntary smokefree-home rules.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More states and localities are passing restrictions on smoking in public places and workplaces.

Purpose

To determine what, if any, association exists between enactment of strong laws making public places or workplaces smokefree on adoption of voluntary smokefree-home policies, particularly whether such laws are associated with increased smoking at home.

Methods

Logistic regressions were used to estimate the OR of a person living with a 100% smokefree-home rule as a function of individual characteristics, household composition, and whether or not the residential region is covered by clean indoor air laws. The data came from successive waves of the Tobacco Use Supplement to Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) for the years 1992-2007, and the American Nonsmoke

SUBMITTER: Cheng KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3222862 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature