Associations of school tobacco policies and legislation with youth smoking: a cross-sectional study of Danish vocational high schools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In vocational high schools, the prevalence of smoking is high (nearly 40% daily smoking in Danish vocational high schools). Schools are increasingly adopting school tobacco policies (STPs) and a national law on smoke-free school grounds has been implemented. Our objective was to explore the extent of STPs in vocational schools and examine the association of STPs and smoke-free school grounds legislation with student smoking.

Methods

We used data from the cross-sectional Danish National Youth Study 2014, including 5013 vocational high school students (76% male) at 40 campuses. Implementation of STPs was measured by questionnaires to principals and field observations of smoking practices were conducted. Logistic regression models assessed whether STP characteristics

SUBMITTER: Andersen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661684 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature