The association of workplace smoke-free policies on individual smoking and quitting-related behaviours.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our study aims to provide information about workplace smoke-free (SF) policy coverage in mainland China and to assess the relationship between workplace SF policies and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, current smoking, smoking harm awareness and quitting intention among smokers.

Method

Data from the 2018 Asia Best Workplace Mainland China programme were used to address these aims. This cross-sectional study included 14,195 employees from the 2018 survey and 14,953 employees from the 2019 survey. Logistic regression with year-fixed effects was applied to these data. The dependent variables were SHS exposure, smoking or smoking harm awareness. The explanatory variable was the SF workplace policy.

Results

A total of 21,275 participants (73.0%) reported working

SUBMITTER: Lin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8686617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature