Home smoking bans and secondhand smoke exposure in Mexico and the US

Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Never-Smoking Youth in 168 Countries

“…Similarly, we found that parental smoking is the strongest determinant in SHS exposure outside home, with point estimates slightly higher than those with peer smoking. Previous studies have found that adolescents with never-smoking friends were better prepared to avoid smoking environments than those with smoking friends, and demonstrated that smoking bans at homes not only modified parental smoking behavior but also reduced adolescents' SHS exposure both inside and outside home [28]. Moreover, we found that never-smoking adolescents with both smoking parents and peers had 23 times increased relative odds of exposure to SHS both inside and outside home, suggesting the need for developing and implementing SFPs for facilities used and/or places frequented by adolescents, educating parents to cease tobacco use or at a minimum stop smoking in the presence of adolescents, and educating peers with tobacco-free health education and promotional programs.…”

Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

“…Previous studies (Biener et al, 1997;Albers et al, 2008) showed that consistent application of a rule or message is crucial if it is to be effective with adolescents. Some studies (Flay et al, 1999;Martinez-Donate, 2009) showed that partial smoking ban has not been effective in influencing children not to initiate smoking. Varying sample size, age groups and sampling methods used in the studies may be other factors which contribute to the contradictory results of this study and those mentioned above (Albers et al, 2008).…”

Smoking on Both Sides of the Pacific: Home Smoking Restrictions and Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Korean Adults and Children in Seoul and California

“…However, we have found similar patterns in South Korea between genders where women faced more criticism for, and the same level of criticism had a stronger association with, smoking than among men . Martinez-Donate et al (2009 found that exposure to the California smoking climate was associated with a lower smoking prevalence 1,500 miles south of the Mexican border. These analyses were able to observe patterns of mediation and moderation with less extreme variability in distal determinants than presented here, suggesting that ecological frameworks may be pursued in more nuanced cases.…”

“…Research among diverse populations documents a consistent association between harsher home smoking restrictions and lower SHSe (Martinez-Donate, Johnson-Kozlow, Hovell, & Gonzalez Perez, 2009;Pizacani et al, 2003), particularly among children (Spencer, Blackburn, Bonas, Coe, & Dolan, 2005); this relationship appears to hold for Koreans and Korean Americans (Hughes, Corcos, Hofstetter, Hovell, & Irvin, 2008). However, the relative effectiveness of home smoking restrictions may be contingent on the social structures they are embedded in, the moderating ecologic deduction.…”