Mapping the visibility of smokers across a large capital city.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking visibility may affect smoking norms with implications for tobacco initiation, particularly amongst youths. Understanding how smoking is distributed across urban environments would contribute to the design and implementation of tobacco control policies. Our objective is to estimate the visibility of smokers in a large urban area using a novel GIS-based methodological approach.

Methods

We used systematic social observation to gather information about the presence of smokers in the environment within a representative sample of census tracts in Madrid city in 2016. We designed a GIS-based methodology to estimate the visibility of smokers throughout the whole city using the data collected in the fieldwork. Last, we validated our results in a sample of 40 locati

SUBMITTER: Valiente R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8573742 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature