title: Smoking patterns, quit behaviors, and smoking environment of workers in small manufacturing companies.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study describes smokers employed at 47 small manufacturing companies in Minnesota, USA.
  
  
  METHODS
  Smokers (n = 713) participating in a group-randomized trial completed a baseline survey on their smoking patterns, quit behaviors, smoking environment, workplace attitudes about smoking, and correlates of smoking. These characteristics were examined by job type and a latent class analysis (LCA) was performed to group workers with similar characteristics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Production workers had the highest prevalence of daily smoking (88% vs. 68% among managers), and addiction (61% vs. 26% among managers), and the highest mean level of perceived stress (6.4 vs. 4.9 among managers). The LCA identified three subgroups of smokers that differed in levels of barriers to cessation. Production workers were most likely to be in the group with greater barriers (P = 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results underscore the importance of targeting interventions to production workers and those who exhibit the greatest barriers to cessation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Erika A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Pinsker
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Deborah J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Hennrikus
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hannan
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Harry A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Lando
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Brosseau
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D066192:Manufacturing Industry; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D009790:Occupations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015995:Prevalence; D058012:Small Business; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution
keywords: blue-collar workers; manufacturing workers; occupational health; occupations; smoking; smoking cessation; workplace