Prison tobacco control policies and deaths from smoking in United States prisons: population based retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the mortality attributable to smoking and years of potential life lost from smoking among people in prison and whether bans on smoking in prison are associated with reductions in smoking related deaths.

Design

Analysis of cross sectional survey data with the smoking attributable mortality, morbidity, and economic costs system; population based time series analysis.

Setting

All state prisons in the United States.

Main outcome measures

Prevalence of smoking from cross sectional survey of inmates in state correctional facilities. Data on state prison tobacco policies from web based searches of state policies and legislation. Deaths and causes of death in US state prisons from the deaths in custody reporting program of the Bureau of Justice S

SUBMITTER: Binswanger IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4122735 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature