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3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employed non-smokers with total indoor smoking bans at work, by sociodemographic factors (n = 417)

Therefore, our estimates for the percentage of daily smokers living in homes where smoking was either not allowed (53 %) or with effective total home smoking bans (48 %) were understandably lower than the 2008 ABS estimate for those living in homes where no householder usually smoked inside (56.3 %; 95 % CI, 52.4 % — 60.2 %).

In conclusion, we found that the gap has closed between the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers and all Australian smokers who live in homes with smoking bans, and that these bans may help smokers to quit.

Better monitoring and enforcement of existing indoor smoking bans, as well as their extension to outdoor public spaces (where people are close together), is a focus of the current National Tobacco Strategy.15

Due to inaccurate recall or social desirability bias, it is likely that some participants with reportedly effective total smoking bans are still being exposed to second - hand smoke.

4 Quitting - related outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers, by home and work smoking bans

We also describe whether home smoking bans were always followed and assess the associations between smoke - free workplaces and homes and quitting.

A similar age — sex - standardised percentage of Australian daily smokers (53.4 %) reported total home smoking bans in Wave 8.5 of the Australian ITC Project study.

The policy monitoring survey included questions about the ACCHS and the community it served, tobacco control activities run by the ACCHS and tobacco control policies (especially smoking bans) at the ACCHS.

For example, the smokeless tobacco section included questions about chewing pituri or native tobaccos as well as store - bought tobacco, and the second - hand smoke section included specific questions about smoking bans at ACCHSs.

However, this optimism needs to be tempered by research that shows reported indoor home smoking bans reduce but do not eliminate children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and its toxins.19, 20

2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers with effective home smoking bans, * by sociodemographic factors (n = 1643)

One of the most positive shifts in prison health has been the move towards smoke - free prisons across Australia, with Northern Territory prisons now in their second year of smoking bans.

Prevalence and predictors of home and automobile smoking bans and child environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a cross-sectional study of U.S. - and Mexico - born Hispanic women with young children

However, the effectiveness of smoking bans in reducing heart problems has continued to be a source of debate.

Evidence from those places which have already introduced smoking bans is contradictory in terms of the effect of the ban on the hospitality sector.

Recent case law is indeed leaning toward vitiating the inclusion of e-smoking into these general smoking bans.

Smoking bans are enacted to protect the public from the harm of secondhand smoke, but e-cigarettes have not been shown to cause harm to bystanders.

Many of the smoking bans of the 1990s were enacted because companies and institutions feared that they would be sued over second hand smoke.

LOL, our government doesn't need to make decisions for us except smoking bans in private businesses, right?

Supporters of Heartland will be surprised to learn that we «worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question or deny the health risks of secondhand smoke and to lobby against smoking bans,» that we «support climate change denial,» or that our decision to spin off our work on finance and insurance into the R Street Institute is characterized as the «resignation of almost the entire Heartland Washington D.C. office, taking the Institute's biggest project (on insurance) with it.»

Is it like smoking bans and non-smokers where since you haven't considered having a child, reading someone else's comments that women should be «restricted» to only have one child doesn't stand out to you or do you see any human rights implications associated with certain calls for population control efforts?

Bioethics Case Study: Pros And Cons Of Smoking Bans Bioethics case study provides us a way to analyze and think about difficult medical and moral situations.

Smoking bans encountered similar resistance.

Smoking Bans in US Hospitals Results of a National Survey.

In the face of 40 years of public - health drumbeating, smoking bans, and social pressure, that's an amazing failure rate.

Research has shown that respiratory health among bartenders in cities with smoking bans has improved.

Other projects include an analysis of regional variations of cancer treatment in Texas, a study of the effect of smoking bans on hospitalization rates, and a study of whether shared savings programs for physicians can reduce overall patient health care expenditures.

Prisons that implemented smoking bans had a 9 % reduction in smoking related deaths.

Likewise, advocates for smoking bans should be more candid about the limits of the arguments when interventions depend on weak evidence.

In the argument for smoking bans in parks and on beaches, the most striking aspect, according to Dr. Bayer, is the assertion that just the act of smoking in public poses a threat to the well - being of children and adolescents because of the message it conveys.

A national database maintained by the American Nonsmokers» Rights Foundation shows that from January 1993 to June 2011, U.S. smoking bans were put in effect in 843 parks and on 150 beaches.

In the past year I have published a lengthy critique of outdoor smoking bans (see http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/index.htm) and criticised the overmedicalised view of the smoking cessation process in The Lancet (vol 373, p 701).

However, local coalitions pressing for smoking bans need to be strong enough to overcome the opposition of the tobacco and hospitality industries and of people who invoke threats of Big Brother,» writes Dr. Bayer.

«Prison smoking bans linked to substantial fall in deaths among U.S. inmates.»

Prison smoking bans are associated with a substantial reduction in deaths from smoking related causes, such as heart disease and cancer, finds a US study published on thebmj.com today.

He regularly publishes research on the harmful effects of passive smoking and has testified in support of indoor smoking bans in more than 50 US cities.

His offence was to post messages on the widely read mailing list Tobacco Policy Talk, in which he questioned one of the medical claims about passive smoking, as well as the wisdom of extreme measures such as outdoor smoking bans.

Individual cities started enforcing smoking bans in restaurants, Willems Van Dijk notes, after studies showed that secondhand smoke increased the number of heart attacks and cases of asthma in nonsmokers.

But even six months later, toxic tobacco smoke residue remained above levels found in hotels or private homes with smoking bans.

Researchers led by Jasper Been at Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands reviewed 11 studies that examined how hospital admissions for childhood asthma and preterm births changed after smoking bans were implemented in various countries and US states.

The authors reviewed approximately 2,500 adult non-smokers» self - reported rates of tobacco smoke exposure in several public and private settings following smoking bans in 2006 and 2011.

Alan Blum at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa says the study could be invaluable to places considering smoking bans: «It's epidemiological eye candy.»

As numerous countries have introduced smoking bans in public places, the home has become the main source of passive smoking exposure.

Public smoking bans are linked with falls in childhood asthma attacks and premature births, finds the biggest analysis yet of the impact of bans on child health.

Evidence from prisons around the world shows that smoking bans introduced with support for tobacco users do not spark violence, says Deborah Arnott

Smoking bans mean fewer premature births and fewer children taken to hospital for asthma, dispelling fears that bans make people smoke more at home

«Smoking bans finds decrease in smoke exposure in public and private places.»

He argues that given the paucity of health data, current indoor smoking bans should apply to e-cigs as well.

Several cities in California have or are considering instituting public smoking bans that are quite restrictive by citing the health concerns of secondhand smoke, i.e. Calabasas, Laguna Beach