Complete workplace indoor smoking ban and smoking behavior among male workers and female nonsmoking workers' husbands: A pseudo cohort study of japanese public workers

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Abstract

A pseudo cohort study using national cross-sections (2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010) was conducted to examine differences in smoking prevalence under different smoking ban policies such as a complete workplace indoor smoking ban (early or recent implementation) and a partial smoking ban among male public workers and husbands of female nonsmoking public workers. The effectiveness of smoking bans was estimated by difference-in-differences (DID) with age group stratification. The results varied considerably by age and implementation period. Although DID estimates (positive value of DID estimate represents smoking cessation percentage) for both smoking bans on total male smoking were not significant, the over-40 age group indicated a significant DID estimate of 5.0 (95% CI: 0.2, 9.8) for the recent smoking ban. For female workers' husbands' smoking, the over-40 age group indicated positive, but not significant, DID estimates for the early and recent smoking bans of 7.2 (-4.7, 19.2) and 8.4 (-2.0, 18.7), respectively. A complete indoor workplace smoking ban, particularly one recently implemented among public office workers aged over 40, may reduce male workers' smoking and female workers' husbands' smoking compared with a partial smoking ban, but the conclusion remains tentative because of methodological weaknesses in the study. © 2014 Takahiro Tabuchi et al.

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Tabuchi, T., Hoshino, T., Hama, H., Nakata-Yamada, K., Ito, Y., Ioka, A., … Tsukuma, H. (2014). Complete workplace indoor smoking ban and smoking behavior among male workers and female nonsmoking workers’ husbands: A pseudo cohort study of japanese public workers. BioMed Research International, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/303917

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