Smoking in the home: changing attitudes and current practices.
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 88 (5), 797-800
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.88.5.797
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Trends in attitudes and current practices concerning smoking in the home were examined. METHODS: Data from population-based surveys of adults in Ontario, Canada, were analyzed. RESULTS: Between 1992 and 1996, the percentage of respondents who agreed that parents spending time at home with small children should not smoke increased from 51% to 70%. In 1996, 34% of the homes surveyed were smoke-free. Smoke-free homes were associated with nonsmoking respondents and with the presence of children and no daily smokers in the home. Only 20% of homes with children and any daily smokers were smoke-free. CONCLUSIONS: Efforts are needed to assist parents in reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the home.Keywords
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