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Steps Toward Scalability: Illustrations From a Smoke-Free Homes Program

Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Scalable interventions remain effective across a range of real-world settings and can be modified to fit organizational and community context. “Smoke-Free Homes: Some Things are Better Outside” has been effective in promoting smoke-free home rules in low-income households in efficacy, effectiveness, generalizability, and dissemination studies.
Michelle C. Kegler, Regine Haardörfer, Taylor Melanson, Lindsey Allen, Lucja T. Bundy, Matthew W. Kreuter, Rebecca S. Williams, Melbourne F. Hovell, Patricia Dolan Mullen   +8 more
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Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in the Home and Public areas among Adolescents in Abuja, Nigeria: Tobacco control implications

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2015
Introduction Secondhand smoke (SHS) causes death and disease among non-smokers. In 2008, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, passed a comprehensive smoke-free law.
Uyoyo Omaduvie, Akinyele Adisa
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Could adolescents be the vehicle that transfers a no-smoking rule from school to home?

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2021
Introduction Banning smoking at home, schools, children’s playgrounds and indoor environments, constitutes an integral part of tobacco control efforts to prevent uptake of smoking among young teenagers.
Dimitra Mpousiou, Elpidoforos S. Soteriades, Stavros Patrinos, Nickolaos Sakkas, Anna Karakatsani, Areti Karathanasi, Chrstina Gratziou, Paraskevi A. Katsaounou   +7 more
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Smoking behaviour, involuntary smoking, attitudes towards smoke-free legislations, and tobacco control activities in the European Union [PDF]

, 2013
The six most important cost-effective policies on tobacco control can be measured by the Tobacco Control Scale (TCS). The objective of our study was to describe the correlation between the TCS and smoking prevalence, self-reported exposure to secondhand ...
Clancy, Luke, Fernández Muñoz, Esteve, Fu Balboa, Marcela, Gallus, Silvano, La Vecchia, Carlo, Martínez Martínez, Cristina, Martínez Sánchez, Jose M., Sureda, Xisca   +7 more
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Using air quality monitoring to reduce second-hand smoke exposure in homes : the AFRESH feasibility study [PDF]

, 2017
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research was supported by a grant from the Medical Research Council’s Public Health Intervention Development scheme. The research team would like to thank Christine Foster and the staff and volunteers of Healthy Valleys, Lanarkshire,
De Bruin, Marijn, Dobson, Ruaraidh, O'Donnell, Rachel, Semple, Sean, Turner, Stephen   +4 more
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Predictors of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke among non-smoking in-school adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria

Population Medicine, 2020
Introduction Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) has proven to be a public health problem. The problem is even worse among vulnerable groups like non-smoking children and adolescents. There is limited information on SHS exposure among Nigerian adolescents;
Omotayo F. Fagbule, Mary E. Osuh
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Further insights on predictors of environmental tobacco smoke exposure during the pediatric age [PDF]

, 2019
Background: The smoking ban in public places has reduced Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) exposure for non-smokers, but despite this, domestic environments still remain places at high risk of exposure, and, today, about 40% of children worldwide are ...
Antonucci, A., Cammalleri, V., Martellucci, S., Mattei, V., Protano, C., Santilli, F., Ungureanu, A. S., Vitali, M.   +7 more
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Prevalence and determinants of smoke-free homes in 12 European countries: the TackSHS Survey

ERJ Open Research
Background Homes are one of the primary locations where people are exposed to second-hand smoke (SHS) in Europe. We describe the prevalence and identify the main determinants of having home-smoking restrictions in 12 European countries.
Olena Tigova, Chiara Stival, Yolanda Castellano, Alessandra Lugo, Marcela Fu, Anna Mar López, Cristina Martínez, Joan B. Soriano, Rachel O'Donnell, Sean Semple, Maria J. López, Esteve Fernández, Silvano Gallus   +12 more
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A behaviour change intervention to reduce home exposure to second hand smoke during pregnancy in India and Bangladesh: a theory and evidence-based approach to development

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2021
Background Home exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is highly prevalent amongst pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries like India and Bangladesh.
Veena A. Satyanarayana, Cath Jackson, Kamran Siddiqi, Prabha S. Chandra, Rumana Huque, Mukesh Dherani, Shammi Nasreen, Pratima Murthy, Atif Rahman   +8 more
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Progress in Reducing Indoor Tobacco Smoke Pollution Toward the Establishment of Kabupaten/Kota Layak Anak

Jurnal Bina Praja, 2023
In 2017, only about 26.68 percent of Indonesian households were tobacco-free. Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in children under the age of 5 have been linked to indoor tobacco smoke pollution.
Mardiana Dwi Puspitasari, Riza Fatma Arifa   +1 more
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