title: Do partial home smoking bans signal progress toward a smoke-free home?
abstract: Understanding who establishes partial home smoking bans, what these bans cover, and whether they are an intermediate step in going smoke-free would help to inform smoke-free home interventions. Participants were recruited from United Way of Greater Atlanta's 2-1-1 contact center. Data were collected at baseline, 3 and 6 months via telephone interview. Participants (n = 375) were mostly African American (84.2%) and female (84.3%). The majority (58.5%) had annual household incomes <$10,000. At baseline, 61.3% reported a partial smoking ban and 38.7% reported no ban. Existence of a partial ban as compared with no ban was associated with being female, having more than a high school education, being married and younger age. Partial bans most often meant smoking was allowed only in designated rooms (52.6%). Other common rules included: no smoking in the presence of children (18.4%) and smoking allowed only in combination with actions such as opening a window or running a fan (9.8%). A higher percentage of households with partial bans at baseline were smoke-free at 6 months (36.5%) compared with households with no bans at baseline (22.1%). Households with partial smoking bans may have a higher level of readiness to go smoke-free than households with no restrictions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, mkegler@emory.edu.
authors.forename: Michelle C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kegler
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Regine
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haardörfer
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Lucja T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Bundy
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Cam
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Escoffery
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Carla J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27510 and.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 91941, USA.
authors.forename: Mel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hovell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D036301:Qualitative Research; D061845:Smoke-Free Policy; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution