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The audit of written policies revealed that 19 (61%) services had total bans, 11 (36%) had partial bans and 1 (3%) did not have a written smoking policy. Agreement between staff policy awareness and their service’s written policy was moderate (Kappa 0.48) for a total ban and fair (...
Therefore, this cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of ETS exposure at home, prevalence of asthma and other respiratory conditions and examined the ETS exposure at home and personal tobacco smoking as risk factors for self-reported asthma among high-school students in Kuwait. Methods In ...
The “dose-related indices” concern ETS exposure in terms of amount smoked, duration of smoking and the number of smokers the subject was exposed to. ETS exposure from pipe/cigar only was ignored. Note that the term “relative risk” is taken to include estimates of it, such as the odds...
The legal smoking age differs by state and starts around 18 years. The same goes for the existing smoking bans which are regulated individually by each state. Some states have implemented state-wide smoking bans in all enclosed public areas. Read more ...
To investigate whether the density of tobacco retail outlets near schools in Victoria, Australia, is associated with adolescent smoking behaviour. Methods: Cross‐sectional survey data of 2,044 secondary school students aged 12–17 years was combined with tobacco outlet audit data. Associations between...
Multivariable models are adjusted for offspring sex, parent sex, family SES, grandparent education level, grandparent smoking status, parent mental health at age 15–17, frequency of parent use of the substance at previous ages (where appropriate), and concurrent use of cannabis for models where...
Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics; 1960. 19. Scollo M, Winstanley M. Trends in tobacco consumption. In: Victoria CC, ed. Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues. Melbourne, Australia: Cancer Council Victoria; 2015. 20. Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler. Illicit...
Rate of daily smoking, non-daily smoking, quit ratio, HCS, cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) were reported from Australia [13] to reflect the changes in tobacco use behaviours between 2001 and 2016. Sequential Global Adult Tobacco Surveys (GATS) data would be able to describe the changes in ...
Smoking cigarettes is one of those things that we allow adults to do even though it’s obviously bad for them, causing numerous cancers and other health problems. …It’s a free country. …One does not need to be a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian to be disgusted at this affront to ...