Effect of Smoke-Free Home and Workplace Policies on Second-Hand Smoke Exposure Levels in Children: An Evidence Summary
Abstract
Second-hand smoke (SHS) is a major avoidable cause of developmental and respiratory disease and premature death among children worldwide. SHS is a ‘Class A’ carcinogen, and there is no safe level of SHS exposure. Almost 700 million children worldwide are exposed daily to SHS at home. This article reviews and summarizes evidence based on available studies that report on ‘voluntary’ home smoking restrictions and their effects on SHS exposure levels in children aged 0–17 years. All potentially relevant publications within a 10-year period (January 2000–April 2010) were identified (n = 19 full-text articles) through comprehensive database searches. In general, voluntary household smoking restrictions reported a significant reduction in childhood SHS exposure ranging between 20–50% reductions, using both self-reported and biological measures. Mandated comprehensive workplace and enclosed public smoke-free policies also suggested an apparent benefit in some specific pediatric health encounters, namely, decreased preterm birth risks and reduced emergency hospital visits owing to asthma.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The magnitude of the relation between residence smoking restrictions and smoking outcomes was often very large, including >2-fold differences in many associations.
“The magnitude of the relation observed was often very large, including >2-fold differences in many of these associations.”
From Population Approaches to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Smoking Habits: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2012) · cites this paper as [461]
In recent systematic reviews of multiple cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, residence smoking restrictions were strongly and consistently linked to lower smoking prevalence, lower average cigarette consumption among smokers, higher rates of cessation attempts, and lower rates of relapse in adults; less smoking and progression to experimentation in children; and less exposure to secondhand烟
“In recent systematic reviews of multiple cross-sectional as well as longitudinal studies, residence smoking restrictions were strongly and consistently linked to lower smoking prevalence, lower average cigarette consumption among smokers, higher rates of cessation attempts, and lower rates of relapse in adults; less smoking and progression to experimentation in children; and less exposure to”
From Population Approaches to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Smoking Habits: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2012) · cites this paper as [461]
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 47 · Cited by 13
- Authors
- Kabir, Z., Alpert, H. R., Goodman, P. G., Haw, S., Behm, I., Connolly, G. N., Gupta, P. C., & Clancy, L.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- TobaccoFree Research Institute (IE)
- Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (GB)
- Healis Sekhsaria Institute For Public Health (IN)
- Venue
- Pediatric Health
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 391-403
- ISSN
- 1745-5111 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-512X
- OpenAlex
- W2119648166
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Pediatric Health (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Health Research Board
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Keywords
- passive smoking, smoke-free workplace policies, smoke-free public places, self-reported exposure, preterm birth
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
