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Cultural Factors Related to Smoking in San Francisco's Irish Bars

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: California's Smoke-Free Workplace Act was extended to include bars in 1998. While the majority of bars in the state have become smoke free, in many bars patrons and staff continue to smoke despite the law. The authors present findings from a study which assessed cultural factors related to continued smoking in bars in the city of San Francisco. In bars serving primarily Irish migrants, tight-knit relations within the local Irish bar community together with a reluctance to be the first Irish bar to ban smoking were found to contribute to continued indoor smoking. The findings illustrate challenges to implementing tobacco control policies within ethnic subpopulations and particularly highlight the importance of considering how cultural dynamics within subpopulations may help or hinder such policies.

Source: Journal of Drug Education

DOI: 10.2190/de.39.2.e

Authors: Travis D. Satterlund, Tamar M. J. Antin, Juliet P. Lee, Roland S. Moore

Institutions: Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities