title: The effects of smoking outside workplaces on non-regular smokers.
abstract: The introduction of workplace smoking bans has resulted in smokers smoking outside their workplaces (exiled smoking). Social identity theory postulates that this may cause antagonism between smokers and non-smokers, or where non-smokers were friends with smokers, pressure on non-smokers to smoke. This study examines perceptions and beliefs about exiled smoking in 166 non-smoking workers. They saw smokers as having a work benefit not available to them, but otherwise they were generally not drawn to the activity. Half had joined smokers outside for breaks, but of these only one-third had ever smoked. Those would smoked reported that they did not have a regular pattern of joining the same group of smokers. Although it may provide a conduit for susceptible non-smokers to take up smoking, exiled smoking does not appear to influence those who are not otherwise vulnerable.
authors.affiliation: School of Behavioural Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Borland
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McGartland
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D011639:Public Opinion; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*