Are homeless transitional shelters receptive to environmental tobacco control interventions?: Table 1
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Despite a smoking prevalence approaching 70% among homeless adults in the US,1,2 little is known about ways to intervene on smoking behaviour in this marginalised population. Tobacco control advocates point to marketing by the tobacco industry and the pervasiveness and social acceptance of tobacco use in homeless settings as barriers to promoting effective cessation of smoking and smoke-free environments in this vulnerable population.3 They maintain that homeless service providers continue to hold apparently common assumptions that tobacco is a resource and that their clients have higher priority needs than to quit smoking.3–5 Recent studies, however, have begun to challenge these assumptions.2–6 In a series of focus groups and interviews exploring tobacco use behaviours among the homeless,2 up to 76% of homeless persons interviewed reported an intention to quit smoking in the next 6 months. Recent investigations in tobacco, alcohol and drug addiction have also demonstrated that rehabilitation programmes for misusers are commonly more effective when risky …
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Small studies show that homeless people are open to both behavioural and pharmaceutical help with quitting smoking.
“Findings from small studies111,114,115 of smoking cessation in homeless populations have shown that homeless individuals are receptive to both behavioural and pharmaceutical assistance with smoking cessation.”
From The health of homeless people in high-income countries: descriptive epidemiology, health consequences, and clinical and policy recommendations (2014) · cites this paper as [111]
The paper’s introductory section (page not specified) reports that up to 76% of homeless people in cited focus groups intended to quit smoking. Its survey findings concern shelters’ receptivity to tobacco-control policies, not residents’ receptivity to behavioural or pharmaceutical cessation assistance; the latter is not reported. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSmoking cessation among homeless people is hindered by high environmental exposure in shelters and congregant living facilities, reduced health-care access, and competing health needs.
“Several factors impede smoking cessation, including high rates of environmental exposure in shelters and other congregant living facilities, reduced access to health care,111 and competing health needs, which decrease health-care providers’”
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The paper’s introductory discussion identifies pervasive tobacco use in homeless settings and assumptions about higher-priority needs, but it does not address reduced access to health care—the factor immediately preceding this citation. Searches for health-care access and medical-care availability found no passage supporting that factor. (LLM, conf=0.73)
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- Authors
- Arangua, L., McCarthy, W. J., Moskowitz, R., Gelberg, L., & Kuo, T.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kuo, Tony
- Venue
- Tobacco Control
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2007-03-30
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 143-144
- ISSN
- 0964-4563 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-3318
- PMC
- PMC2598474
- OpenAlex
- W2140755835
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Tobacco Control (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Homelessness and Social Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- homeless adults, smoking cessation, smoke-free policies, transitional shelters, tobacco use prevalence, tobacco industry marketing, barriers to quitting, tobacco control interventions
- MeSH terms
- Smoking Prevention, Adolescent, Adult, Female, Ill-Housed Persons, Housing, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Los Angeles, Smoking Cessation
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