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. 2015 May;17(5):612-6.
doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntu201. Epub 2014 Oct 16.

Full and home smoking ban adoption after a randomized controlled trial targeting secondhand smoke exposure reduction

Jody S Nicholson  1 , Michael J McDermott  2 , Qinlei Huang  3 , Hui Zhang  3 , Vida L Tyc  4
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Full and home smoking ban adoption after a randomized controlled trial targeting secondhand smoke exposure reduction

Jody S Nicholson et al. Nicotine Tob Res. 2015 May.

Abstract

Introduction: The current study examined home and full (i.e., home plus car) smoking ban adoption as secondary outcomes to a randomized controlled trial targeting reduced secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe) for children under treatment for cancer.

Methods: Families with at least 1 adult smoker who reported SHSe for their children (n = 119) were randomized to control or intervention conditions and followed for 1 year with 5 assessments. Both groups were advised of the negative health outcomes associated with SHSe; the intervention group provided more in-depth counseling from baseline to 3 months. Parents reported on household and car smoking behavior, demographic, psychosocial, and medical/treatment-related information.

Results: Regardless of group assignment, there was an increase in home (odds ration [OR] = 1.16, p = .074) and full (OR = 1.37, p = .001) smoking ban adoption across time. Families in the intervention group were more likely to adopt a full ban by 3 months, but this difference was nonsignificant by 12 months. Married parents (OR = 2.33, p = .006) and those with higher self-efficacy for controlling children's SHSe (OR = 1.11, p = .023) were more likely to have a home smoking ban; parents who reported smoking fewer cigarettes were more likely to adopt a home (OR = 1.62, p < .0001) or full (OR = 7.32, p = .038) ban.

Conclusions: Smoking bans are in-line with Healthy People 2020's tobacco objectives and may be more feasible for parents with medically compromised children for immediate SHSe reduction. Furthermore, interventions targeting full smoking bans may be a more effective for comprehensive elimination of SHSe.

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Smoking ban adoption by intervention condition and time point; data were collected at a large pediatric hospital from 2002–2008. Note. Because it was an exclusion criteria for this analysis, there were no families reporting full smoking bans at baseline, but about a quarter of the sample (standard care control : 23.7%; secondhand smoke exposure reduction intervention: 21.7%) reported having a home ban. *p < .05; +p < .1.
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