title: The Effects of Workplace Clean Indoor Air Law Coverage on Workers' Smoking-Related Outcomes.
abstract: This study investigated the effects of workplace clean indoor air law (CIAL) coverage on worksite compliance with CIALs, smoking participation among indoor workers, and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmoker indoor workers. This study improved on previous research by using the probability of a resident in a county covered by workplace CIALs, taking into account the state, county, and city legislation. The county-level probability of being covered by a CIAL is merged into two large nationally representative US surveys on smoking behaviors: Tobacco Use Supplement of the Current Population Survey (2001-2010) and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2000-2006) based on the year of the survey and respondent's geographic location to identify respondents' CIAL coverage. This study estimated several model specifications of including and not including state or county fixed effects, and the effects of workplace CIALs are consistent across models. Increased coverage by workplace CIALs significantly increased likelihood of reporting a complete smoking restriction by 8% and 10% for the two different datasets, decreased smoking participation among indoor workers by 12%, and decreased SHS exposure among nonsmokers by 28%. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Kai-Wen
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: School of Management and Economics, CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Public Health, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.|Health Science Research Institute, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.
authors.forename: MariaElena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.affiliation: Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, Phillip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Stanton
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Glantz
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution
keywords: clean indoor air law coverage; local ordinances; smoking