Associations of tobacco control policies with birth outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is unclear whether the benefits of tobacco control policies extend to pregnant women and infants, especially among racial/ethnic minority and low socioeconomic populations that are at highest risk for adverse birth outcomes.

Objective

To examine the associations of state cigarette taxes and the enactment of smoke-free legislation with US birth outcomes according to maternal race/ethnicity and education.

Design, setting, and participants

Using a quasi-experimental approach, we analyzed repeated cross sections of US natality files with 16,198,654 singleton births from 28 states and Washington, DC, between 2000 and 2010. We first used probit regression to model the associations of 2 tobacco control policies with the probability that a pregnant woman smoked

SUBMITTER: Hawkins SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4240616 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature