Implementing Smoke-Free Policies in Hosptial Settings

Smoke-Free Public Policies and Voluntary Policies in Personal Settings in Tbilisi, Georgia: A Qualitative Study

Georgia has limited tobacco control policies, particularly in the area of smoke-free public policies, which may influence the adoption of smoke-free home rules. We qualitatively examined knowledge about and reactions to public and personal smoke-free policies among Tbilisi residents. In Spring 2014, we conducted six focus groups among 47 total participants--two among male smokers, one among mal...

Implementation of smoke-free policies in mental health in-patient settings in England.

BACKGROUND Mental health units in England had to become smoke-free by law from July 2008. Concerns regarding the implementation and enforcement of smoke-free policies in these settings have been raised. AIMS To study difficulties and challenges associated with smoke-free policy implementation in English National Health Service (NHS) mental health settings. METHOD Questionnaire survey of all...

Strict smoke-free home policies among smoking parents in pediatric settings.

OBJECTIVE To examine strict smoke-free home policies among smoking parents assessed in pediatric offices. METHODS We analyzed baseline parental survey data from 10 control practices in a national trial of pediatric office-based tobacco control interventions (Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, CEASE). We used logistic regression models with generalized estimating equations to e...

Are smoke-free policies good for business?

Smoke-Free Workplace Policies and Organizational Attraction

Companies adopt smoke-free workplace policies to improve health of their employees, but how severely such policies are enforced can have an impact on non-smoking employees as well and can also affect employees' view about their companies. The current study examined the extent to which perceived severity of and organizational support for a smoke-free workplace policy affected employees’ attracti...