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Smoking
Published in Vincenzo Berghella, Maternal-Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines, 2022
Jorge E. Tolosa, Niyazi Kilic, David M. Stamilio
Other political and social interventions such as smoking taxation, smoking bans in public and other places, bans on tobacco advertising and promotion, increases in retail prices, anti-smoking advocacy, and other public policies are effective in smoking cessation [49]. For example, smoke-free legislation such as smoking bans in workplaces, public places, or both, is associated with significant reductions in preterm births and child hospital admission for asthma [50].
Smoking
Published in Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan, Marie-Anne Essam, Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Primary Care, 2018
Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan, Marie-Anne Essam
The recent smoking ban in public places prohibits people smoking in restaurants, wine bars, pubs, other public places and in the workplace. Although the effect the ban will have on the prevalence of smoking is not yet known, it seems likely that the number of smokers will reduce.
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Published in Phelps Charles E, Parente Stephen T, The Economics of US Health Care Policy, 2017
Phelps Charles E, Parente Stephen T
The first steps came with laws about smoking in public indoor spaces, where state and local bans on smoking led some smokers to quit. Many private institutions followed suit even when not required by law, expanding the “no smoking” from the indoor environment to wider areas of the surrounding outdoors. Hospitals led this movement in many important ways. Original exemptions from indoor smoking bans for bars and bowling alleys gradually eroded, and smoking bans extended to outdoor settings such as sports arenas. Federal laws limited and then eliminated smoking on airplane flights.
The Impact of Smoking Regulations on the Daily Routine of Patients within an Irish Mental Health Setting
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2023
In contrast to the previous discussion, De Oliveira et al. (2018) found that 57.1% of patients (n = 126) felt that enabling smoking is an omission of care. The majority stated that smoking in such settings suggests a lack of respect for nonsmokers. An Australian study (Hehir et al., 2012), reported that 81% of patients (n = 45) viewed a smoking ban as a great opportunity to quit. There is increasing evidence that patients welcome the discussion and support for smoking cessation (Malone et al., 2018; Olivier et al., 2007). Gaining a sense of achievement, welcoming the smoke-free environment and physical and financial benefits were associated with the implementation of a smoking ban (Hehir et al., 2012). Social support is seen as an important factor. Hehir et al. (2012), reported that 85% of the sample of forensic patients (n = 45) stated that it was easier to quit smoking within a group and Dickens et al. (2005), reported 79.4% of forensic in-patients reported that observing other patients smoking would increase the difficulty of quitting.
Displacement imposition scale assesses reactions of cigarette and e-cigarette users impacted by a campus-wide smoking ban
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2023
Delaney S. Dunn, Eleanor L. S. Leavens, Susanna V. Lopez, Emily A. Warner, Emma I. Brett, Ashley B. Cole, Thad R. Leffingwell
Tobacco denormalization efforts can be described as anything that signals to society that tobacco use is no longer a normative behavior.1 These efforts can include public smoking bans, individual-level smoking cessation interventions, and mass-media campaigns,1 and they have become common in the U.S. over the past twenty-two years.2,3 While tobacco denormalization procedures have received high approval among nontobacco users and have demonstrated some success in reducing smoking rates,4–8 other research suggests that smoking bans may not be as effective in encouraging smokers to quit.9 Specifically, some research has indicated that smoking bans are ineffective in reducing smoking among current smokers.9 Furthermore, while rates of combustible cigarette smoking have declined in the past 50 years, rates of e-cigarette use have increased, particularly among young adults.10,11 In fact, e-cigarette use has risen significantly in recent years among both current tobacco users and those otherwise naïve to tobacco.10 Given that e-cigarette use is less harmful than cigarette use but not completely harmless, the increase in e-cigarette use is problematic and necessitates attention.12,13
How effective are campus-wide smoking bans? A comparison of two small colleges
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
While our findings demonstrated clear reductions in both cigarette smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke after the implementation of a campus-wide smoking ban, there was no direct evidence that these changes were caused by the ban itself. We observed a 28.5% reduction in students’ self-reported smoking following the ban, but an even larger reduction (38.0%) in cigarette use at the control college which had no such policy. These recorded changes followed a general statewide trend in reduced adolescent smoking in the area.24 So while it is likely that some of the reductions in smoking behavior were the result of college cessation efforts, it is also quite possible that students entering both schools were less likely to smoke cigarettes even before arriving on campus. Likewise, we observed a significant reduction in students reporting experience with secondhand smoke following the ban, but again, this change was matched by an equivalent reduction in reported exposure at the control campus and cannot be uniquely attributed to the ban itself.