Effects of venue-specific state clean indoor air laws on smoking-related outcomes

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• Personal Author:
  Bitler MP ; Carpenter CS ; Zavodny M
• Description:
  A large literature has documented relationships between state clean indoor air laws (SCIALs) and smoking-related outcomes in the United States. These laws vary within states over time and across venues such as schools, government buildings, and bars. Few studies, however, have evaluated whether the effects of SCIALs are plausibly concentrated among workers who should have been directly affected because they worked at locations covered by the venue-specific restrictions. We fill this gap in the literature using data on private sector workers, government employees, school workers, eating and drinking place workers, and bartenders from the 1992-2007 Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey. Our quasi-experimental models indicate robust effects of SCIALs restricting smoking in bars: these laws significantly increased the presence of workplace smoking restrictions as reported by bartenders and reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. We do not, however, find that SCIALs in private workplaces, government workplaces, schools, or restaurants increased the presence of workplace smoking restrictions among groups of workers working in venues covered by these laws. This suggests that the smoking reductions associated with SCIALs in previous research are unlikely to have been directly caused by effects of workplace smoking restrictions on workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Smoke Smokers Tobacco Products Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Air-monitoring Air-quality-control Air-quality-measurement Air-quality-monitoring Author Keywords: Smoking Biological-effects Cigarette-smoking Clean Indoor Air Environmental-exposure Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Mathematical-models Pollutants Public-health Quantitative-analysis Risk-factors Smoke-control Smoking Bans Statistical-analysis Tobacco-smoke Work-environment Work-performance Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1057-9230
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038492
• Citation:
  Health Econ 2010 Dec; 19(12):1425-1440
• Contact Point Address:
  UC Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business, Economics/Public Policy, 428 SB, Irvine, CA 92697-3125
• Email:
  kittc@uci.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  Rand Corporation
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Health Economics
• End Date:
  20081231
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:42bfdbf3d56a268a7b0d530006355958edfd388957f4c7a63a7563c5dfd81696863987215029c6e17c52a4196ef570f2420c107270972b11c7b4119282fcfb36
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192188/cdc_192188_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 154.62 KB ]