Smoking behavior and attitudes of employees of a large HMO before and after a work site ban on cigarette smoking.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Mullooly, J P ; Schuman, K L ; Stevens, V J ; Glasgow, R E ; Vogt, T M
• Description:
  Smoking-related data collected during 1976-87 by anonymous cross-sectional surveys of nonphysician employees of a large medical care organization were used to assess how a work site smoking ban affected employees' smoking behavior and attitudes. The smoking ban was implemented at 11 work sites at various times during 1985-86. All work sites had three or more pre-ban surveys and one or two post-ban surveys. The majority of employees reported support for the smoking ban. The ban's effects were assessed by comparing observed post-ban rates with expected rates projected from secular trends in the pre-ban data by the use of logistic regression models that included age, sex, education, and job class as covariates. The work site smoking ban had a substantial effect on the presence of smoke in the work environment, but no short-term effect on smoking prevalence or attempts to quit. The apparent effect of the ban on quantity of cigarettes smoked was assessed by a pre-ban and post-ban analysis of the 1986-87 survey data. A nonequivalent post-ban and post-ban comparison was used to estimate the secular trend. A significant reduction of 1.4 cigarettes per day (P = 0.022) was found in smokers' rate during working hours.
• Subjects:
  Adult Attitude Cross-Sectional Studies Female Health Maintenance Organizations Humans Male Middle Aged Occupational Health Regression Analysis Research Article Smoking

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 105(6):623-628
• Pubmed ID:
  2124362
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P01 CA 44648/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  105
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e7506cbbce6735eeb6055227e7f0e8cbe2fc5ab508174167f0b8cea6af574877
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/63545/cdc_63545_DS1.pdf
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