Home smoking bans in Finland and the association with child smoking

Abstract

Home smoking bans will contribute towards a reduced risk of child smoking even when parents smoke. Tobacco control legislation needs to be enhanced with measures promoting awareness of the benefits achievable through strict home smoking bans. Families characterized by lower socioeconomic status and smoking parents are particular target groups.

Temporal changes of under-reporting of cigarette consumption in population-based studies

“…Among Italians, the prevalence of those who did not allow their guests to smoke inside their home increased from 55% in 2006 to 58% in 2007 and increased to 62% in 2008. The prevalence in 2008 was similar to that found in Finland,34 lower than in the USA,32 35–39 but higher than in Korea40 and Mexico 39. Several studies consistently showed that policies implementing smoke-free public places facilitate the introduction of voluntary smoke-free homes41–44 and decrease the social acceptability of smoking 45–47.…”

Education is the key to protecting children against smoking: What parents think and do

“…That children engage in such behaviour during play has been demonstrated in other studies and has been found to be positively associated with parental smoking; but as was the case in this study, children of non-smokers also engaged in the behaviour [32,33]. Likewise, although parental smoking [34,35] and permitting smoking in their home [36][37][38] are associated with increased risk of youth smoking, some children may smoke despite having non-smoking parents [39,40] and smoke-free homes [39].…”

Hair nicotine levels in non-smoking pregnant women whose spouses smoke outside of the home

“…Our study had a much higher rate of a complete smoking ban in the home, indicating that pregnancy could have a critical role in influencing the home smoking policy. In developed countries, 15.0% to 74.9% of families with children had home smoking bans based on several population-based surveys 22 23…”