Workplace smoking restrictions in China: Results from a six county survey

Tobacco Control

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 403-409

  Ma, Jiemin ^a   Apelberg, Benjamin J ^a   Avila Tang, Erika ^a   Yang, Gonghuan ^b   Ma, Shaojun ^b   Samet, Jonathan M ^c   Stillman, Frances A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PASSIVE SMOKING; POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958590096     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.034207     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: a report of the surgeon general. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.
2. Heloma A, Jaakkola MS, Kähkönen E, et al. The short-term impact of national smoke-free workplace legislation on passive smoking and tobacco use. Am J Public Health 2001;91:1416-18
3. Fong GT, Hyland Y, Borland R. Reductions in tobacco smoke pollution and increases in support for smoke-free public places following the implementation of comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation in the Republic of Ireland: findings from the ITC Ireland/UK Survey. Tob Control 2006;15(Suppl III):iii51-8
4. Valente P, Forastiere F, Bacosi A, et al. Exposure to fine and ultrafine particles from secondhand smoke in public places before and after the smoking ban, Italy 2005. Tob Control 2007;16:312-17
5. Bates MN, Fawcett J, Dickson S, et al. Exposure of hospitality workers to environmental tobacco smoke. Tob Control 2002;11:125-9
6. Allwright S, Paul G, Greiner B, et al. Legislation for smoke-free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study. BMJ 2005; 331:1117.
7. Sargent RP, Shepard RM, Glantz SA. Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study. BMJ 2004;328:977-80
8. Bartecchi C, Alsever RN, Nevin-Woods C, et al. Reduction in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction associated with a citywide smoking ordinance. Circulation 2006;114:1490-6
9. Pell JP, Haw S, Cobbe S, et al. Smoke-free legislation and hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome. N Engl J Med 2008;359:482-91
10. Chapman S, Borland R, Scollo M, et al. The impact of smoke-free workplaces on declining cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States. Am J Public Health 1999;89:1018-23
11. Farrelly MC, Evans WN, Sfekas AE. The impact of workplace smoking bans: results from a national survey. Tob Control 1999;8:272-7
12. Fichtenberg CM, Glantz SA. Effect of smoke-free workplaces on smoking behaviour: systematic review. BMJ 2002;325:188.
13. Yang GH, Ma JM, Liu N, et al. Smoking and passive smoking in Chinese, 2002. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 2005;26:77-83
14. Implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. A report on Chinese tobacco control 2007. Beijing, China: Ministry of Health, 2007:5.
15. Gan Q, Hammond SK, Jiang Y, et al. Effectiveness of a smoke-free policy in lowering secondhand smoke concentrations in offices in China. J Occup Environ Med 2008;50:570-5
16. Stillman F, Navas-Acien A, Ma J, et al. Second-hand tobacco smoke in public places in urban and rural China. Tob Control 2007;16:229-34
17. Cheng Y, Su Z. The Effect of WHO FCTC on the Development of Chinese Tobacco Industry. Beijing: Tobacco Economic Research Institute of Chinese Tobacco Monopoly, 2003.
18. Stillman F, Yang G, Figueiredo V, et al. Building capacity for tobacco control research and policy. Tob Control 2006;15(Suppl 1):i18-23
19. Wang CP, Ma SJ, Xu XF, et al. The prevalence of household second-hand smoke exposure and its correlated factors in six counties of China. Tob Control 2009;18:121-6
20. Greenland S. Modeling and variable selection in epidemiologic analysis. Am J Public Health 1989;79:340-9
21. Hartman AM, Willis G, Davis WW, et al. The 2003 Tobacco Use Special Cessation Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUSCS-CPS): representative survey findings. http://riskfactor.cancer.gov/studies/tus-cps/results/data03/cps_results03.pdf (accessed 19 Jan 2010).
22. Delnevo CD, Hrywna M, Lewis MJ. Predictors of smoke-free workplaces by employee characteristics: who is left unprotected? Am J Ind Med 2004;46:196-202
23. Moskowitz JM, Lin Z, Hudes ES. The impact of workplace smoking ordinances in California on smoking cessation. Am J Public Health 2000;90:757-61
24. Longo DR, Johnson JC, Kruse RL, et al. A prospective investigation of the impact of smoking bans on tobacco cessation and relapse. Tob Control 2001;10: 267-72
25. Ma S, Hoang MA, Samet JM, et al. Myths and attitudes that sustain smoking in China. J Health Commun 2008;13:654-66
26. Borland R, Pierce JP, Burns DM, et al. Protection from environmental tobacco smoke in California: the case for a smoke-free workplace. JAMA 1992;268:749-52
27. Mulcahy M, Evans DS, Hammond SK, et al. Secondhand smoke exposure and risk following the Irish smoking ban: an assessment of salivary cotinine concentrations in hotel workers and air nicotine levels in bars. Tob Control 2005;14:384-8
28. Martínez C, Fu M, Martínez-Sánchez JM, et al. Secondhand smoke in hospitals of Catalonia (Spain) before and after a comprehensive ban on smoking at the national level. Prev Med 2008;47:624-8
29. Bauer JE, Hyland A, Li Q, et al. A longitudinal assessment of the impact of smokefree worksite policies on tobacco use. Am J Public Health 2005;95:1024-9
30. Biener L, Nyman AL. Effect of workplace smoking policies on smoking cessation: results of a longitudinal study. J Occup Environ Med 1999;41:1121-7.