An E-Mail Assessment of Undergraduates' Attitudes Toward Smoking

DeBernardo, R.; Ce, Aldinger; Or, Dawood; Re, Hanson; Sj, Lee; Rinaldi,

doi:10.1080/07448489909595675

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“…The college years also provide a zone for transition from an intermittent or social smoker to a regular or permanent smoker [4]. At the same time, colleges and universities provide opportunities for interventions to prevent tobacco use and promote cessation [5]. For these reasons, organizations such as the American College Health Association have urged colleges and universities to implement tobacco-free campus policies, [6] but the prevalence of such policies in the country has been low [7].…”

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“…Although many research studies on understanding attitudes and behaviors of students toward smoke-free college or university policies exist, [5,8] yet, little is known about the attitudes and behaviors of college or university personnel, the most stable population, towards such policies [9]. Additionally, the general public's attitude toward smoke-free policies in tobacco-producing states in the U.S. has been investigated, [10,11] but little is known about those of college or university personnel toward tobacco-free campus policies in such environments.…”

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University Personnel’s Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the First Tobacco-Free Campus Policy in Tennessee

Mamudu

Veeranki

et al. 2011

J Community Health

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In 1994, Tennessee, the third largest tobacco-producing state in the U.S., preempted tobacco regulation. However, in 2005, higher educational institutions were exempted from this preemption and the 2007 Non-Smoker Protection Act required educational facilities to create smoke-free environment. To this date, while all higher educational institutions have some sort of smoke-free policy, East Tennessee State University is the only public institution with a tobacco-free policy. We investigated attitudes and behaviors of the university personnel, the most stable segment of the population, toward the policy and compliance with it using an internet-based survey. All employees (2,318) were invited to participate in a survey; 58% responded. Bivariate analyses found 79% of the respondents favored the policy. Multiple variable logistic regression analyses found support for the policy was higher among females [OR = 3.14; 95% CI (1.68, 5.86)], administrators/professionals [OR = 3.47; 95% CI (1.78, 6.74)], faculty [OR = 2.69; 95% CI (1.31, 5.53)] and those affiliated with the College of Medicine [OR = 4.14; 95% CI (1.45, 7.85)]. While only 67 employees (5.6% of sample) reported they have not complied with the policy, around 80.8% reported observing someone engaged in non-compliance. The high level of support for the policy suggests it should be promoted throughout the higher education system and nationwide. At the same time, in preemptive states, higher educational institutions should be targeted as venues for strong tobacco-free policies. The gap in compliance, however, implies in tobacco-friendly environments, a tobacco-free campus policy with no reporting and enforcement mechanisms could lead to high levels of non-compliance.

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University Personnel’s Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the First Tobacco-Free Campus Policy in Tennessee

Mamudu

Veeranki

et al. 2011

J Community Health

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“…Many students report smoking exclusively in social situations (Moran, Wechsler, & Rigotti, 2004), and social smoking is constrained by delicate self-presentational considerations (Nichter et al, 2006). Nonsmoking students cite having friends who smoke and a desire to cope with stress as reasons to try cigarettes (DeBernardo & Aldinger, 1999).…”

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Self-monitored motives for smoking among college students.

Piasecki

Richardson

Smith

2007

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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College student smokers (N ϭ 50) were asked to carry electronic diaries for 14 days and record smoking events (n ϭ 1,139). They indicated why they were smoking each cigarette on a checklist of potential motives. Results suggest that a desire to reduce craving (62.8% of occasions) and habit/automatic processes (42.8%) were the most frequent motives. More dependent and daily smokers were especially likely to endorse smoking to reduce craving and for habit/automatic reasons and were less likely to cite coping with negative emotion as a reason for smoking. Dependent and daily smokers were more likely to endorse at least 1 dependence-like motive and were less likely to exclusively attribute smoking to nondependence motives. Self-monitored motives appeared valid, according with conceptually related states, activities, and events in the diary records. Diary-recorded motives were compared with smokers' responses to a retrospective motives questionnaire administered at baseline. The 2 assessment modes produced discrepant estimates of the most influential motivational processes. Questionnaire responses incompletely forecast conceptually similar diary-reported motives. Dependence and daily smoking showed a different pattern of associations with diary-based versus retrospective motives measures.

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“…Comparisons of web-based and mailed surveys yielded results of 58.3% and 62%, respectively (Pealer, Weiler, Pigg, Miller, & Dorman, 2001). In another study, an E-mail survey to college students had a response rate of 56.1% (DeBernardo et al, 1999). Our response rates fall under those; however, as The Harvard College Alcohol Study suggests, there is some indication that student response to surveys of this kind is degrading over time (Brummett et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 74%