Implementation of smoke-free homes in Poland
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2016 Objectives: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) constitutes a threat to the health of many people. In order to diminish ETS exposure, countries (including Poland) implemented legal restrictions of smoking in public places and worksites ...
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Smoke-Free Home Rules and Association with Child Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Mother-Child Dyad Relationships. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Smoke-free home rules restrict smoking in the home, but biomarkers of secondhand smoke exposure are needed to help understand the association between smoke-free homes and child secondhand smoke exposure. Participants (n = 346) were majority Black/African
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Voluntary Smoke-Free Home Rules and Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in Poland: A National Cross-Sectional Survey. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Smoke-free policies have been shown to significantly reduce secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in private and public places. The objectives of this study were to: (1) to assess the prevalence and characteristics of voluntary smoke-free home rules in Poland;
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Supporting Parents Living in Disadvantaged Areas of Edinburgh to Create a Smoke-Free Home Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT): A Two-Phase Qualitative Study. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) in the home is largely associated with socio-economic disadvantage. Disadvantaged parents face specific challenges creating a smoke-free home, often caring for children in accommodation without access to outdoor garden
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation SHS exposure among pregnant women is highly correlated with low birth weight (LBW). SHS exposure in homes can be reduced by a package of "smoke-free home" interventions, particularly in the high prevalence of ...
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Impact of smoke-free home on smoking intensity in low- and middle-income countries
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background Smoke-free policy is associated with smoking reduction; however, it is unknown if the reduction in smoking intensity occurs across the stages of smoking cessation, and there is paucity of literature on the relationship between home smoking ...
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Secondhand smoke exposure at home in China
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background China took great efforts to protect people from secondhand smoke (SHS), including health education, smoke-free environment creating and smoke-free law promotion. Now, more and more people support smoke-free in public places.
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Use of nicotine replacement therapy to create a smoke-free home: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of a smoke-free home intervention in Scotland. [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction The harmful health effects of children’s exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) are well established. Most SHS exposure now occurs in the home, in low-income households. Previous research suggests that using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in the home can help with temporary smoking abstinence and ...
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Smoke-Free Home SafeCare, an integrated intervention, among families at risk for secondhand smoke exposure and child maltreatment in the United States: a study protocol for a hybrid type 1 trial [PDF]
TrialsBackground Secondhand smoke exposure (SHS) and child maltreatment (CM) are preventable yet have negative lifelong impacts on health. When considered together, the risk for negative health outcomes may be compounded, especially for people living in low ...
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Action to achieve smoke-free homes- an exploration of experts' views [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2009 Background Smoking in the home is the major cause of exposure to second-hand smoke in children in the UK, particularly those living in low income households which have fewer restrictions on smoking in the home. Reducing children's exposure to second-hand
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