AIM To evaluate retailer's compliance and consumer's perceptions of and experiences with the point-of-sale (POS) tobacco display ban in Norway, implemented 1 January 2010. METHODS Retailer compliance was measured using audit surveys. Consumer's perceptions of the ban were assessed in three web surveys: one conducted before and two after implementation of the ban. The sample for each of these ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the mortality attributable to smoking and years of potential life lost from smoking among people in prison and whether bans on smoking in prison are associated with reductions in smoking related deaths. DESIGN Analysis of cross sectional survey data with the smoking attributable mortality, morbidity, and economic costs system; population based time series analysis. SE...

This paper comprises two related essays that consider the economic impact of government ordinances to ban smoking in all public places, including privately owned establishments. It is hoped that this analysis will contribute to the public discourse about smoke-free laws that are being considered in many communities around the District. Part I: “Commentary on the Economics of Smoking Bans: Aggre...

Tobacco Control Act (TCA), which among other things, restricts smoking in many public places and prohibits it in others. Many municipalities in Ontario, including some in the Greater Kingston Area (GKA), have passed bylaws prohibiting or limiting smoking in public places. In June and July 1996, we surveyed the GKA to determine support for a smoking ban in most indoor public places and workplace...

Smoking causes over 85% of lung cancers (figure) in men and 70% in women. The incidence has declined over recent years and a paper from the Harvard School of Public Health has now shown that recent lung cancer risk in younger age cohorts in Ireland has declined faster than previously, particularly in males. 1 This is good news for patients and given the smoking ban in Northern Ireland introduce...

BACKGROUND Establishing smoke-free environments is a major component of tobacco control policy. The introduction of a smoke-free policy in medical campuses may serve as a role model for other educational and health institutions but little has been published about their prevalence or impact. In 2012, the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University-Hadassah in Jerusalem, Israel launched a smoke-free...

BACKGROUND A smoking ban in all indoor public places was enforced in Italy on 10 January 2005. METHODS We compared indoor air quality before and after the smoking ban by monitoring the indoor concentrations of fine (<2.5 microm diameter, PM2.5) and ultrafine particulate matter (<0.1 microm diameter, UFP). PM2.5 and ultrafine particles were measured in 40 public places (14 bars, six fast food ...

OBJECTIVES It is especially difficult for hospitality workers to avoid secondhand smoke (SHS), meaning that they are likely particularly vulnerable the effects of SHS. The authors aimed determine degree which smoke-free laws protect from SHS exposure, by examining biochemical markers such exposure. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study exposure in non-smoking employees working s...

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation advice from health care providers (HCP) is well-known to be associated with increased quitting. This study sought to understand the extent to which smokers in France who visited a HCP around the time of the implementation of the national ban on smoking received encouragement to quit from a HCP and what kinds of intervention were provided. HCP may have a unique oppor...

BACKGROUND Several countries in the world have not yet prohibited smoking in public places. Few studies have been conducted on the effects of smoking bans on cardiac health. We evaluated changes in the frequency of acute coronary events in Rome, Italy, after the introduction of legislation that banned smoking in all indoor public places in January 2005. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed acute c...