Year: 2005
Type: editorial
Abstract: An unexpected benefit of smoke-free laws may be a reduction in smoking among adolescents
As the evidence for the risks of harm from exposure to secondhand smoke has grown, so laws and policies to protect workers, children, and other community members from exposure have escalated. Clean indoor air laws are gradually becoming more common, even in traditionally hard to change venues such as restaurants and bars, with countries such as Ireland, Norway, New Zealand, Italy, most Australian states, and a growing number of US states and cities having passed laws eliminating indoor smoking in such venues. While this is good news for protecting the health of non-smokers, researchers have begun to document another less obvious, but equally welcome, consequence of these changing circumstances in where people can freely smoke.
Until now, only cross sectional research studies had noted a relationship between clean indoor air laws and reduced adolescent smoking.1–3 In this issue, Siegel and colleagues report findings from the first longitudinal study to have linked …
Source: Tobacco Control
Authors: M Wakefield, J Forster
Institutions: Cancer Council Victoria, University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2141699768