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Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India

BACKGROUND: Indian smoke-free legislation requires prohibition of smoking at public places and owners of public places to display ‘no smoking’ signages. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to assess the compliance of public places with smoke-free legislation and determine the factors associated with...

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Autores principales: Goel, Sonu, Sharma, Deepak, Gupta, Rakesh, Mahajan, Vini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28798264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053559
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description BACKGROUND: Indian smoke-free legislation requires prohibition of smoking at public places and owners of public places to display ‘no smoking’ signages. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to assess the compliance of public places with smoke-free legislation and determine the factors associated with active smoking in public places. METHODOLOGY: This was a cross-sectional analytic observational quantitative survey conducted by a team of trained field investigators using a structured observational checklist across 6875 public places in Punjab state of India. The study was carried out over a period of 3 years. RESULTS: A total of 6875 public places across 22 districts of Punjab were observed. The overall compliance to smoke-free law in Punjab was 83.8%. The highest overall compliance was observed in healthcare facilities (89.6%) and least in transit stations (78.8%). Less active smoking was observed in public places where display of ‘no smoking’ signage compliant with smoke-free law of India was present (adjusted OR 0.6). Further, there was a positive association between active smoking and places where the owner of public places smoked (OR 5.2, CI 2.5 to 11.1). CONCLUSION: More than 80% of the public places in a jurisdiction in north India were compliant with the smoke-free legislation of India. ‘No smoking’ signages displayed as per legislation have an effect on curbing smoking behaviours at public places. It is recommended that policymakers should focus more on implementing the smoke-free law at transit sites and structured training sessions should be organised for owners of workplaces.
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spelling pubmed-60471422018-07-18 Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India Goel, Sonu Sharma, Deepak Gupta, Rakesh Mahajan, Vini Tob Control Research Paper BACKGROUND: Indian smoke-free legislation requires prohibition of smoking at public places and owners of public places to display ‘no smoking’ signages. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to assess the compliance of public places with smoke-free legislation and determine the factors associated with active smoking in public places. METHODOLOGY: This was a cross-sectional analytic observational quantitative survey conducted by a team of trained field investigators using a structured observational checklist across 6875 public places in Punjab state of India. The study was carried out over a period of 3 years. RESULTS: A total of 6875 public places across 22 districts of Punjab were observed. The overall compliance to smoke-free law in Punjab was 83.8%. The highest overall compliance was observed in healthcare facilities (89.6%) and least in transit stations (78.8%). Less active smoking was observed in public places where display of ‘no smoking’ signage compliant with smoke-free law of India was present (adjusted OR 0.6). Further, there was a positive association between active smoking and places where the owner of public places smoked (OR 5.2, CI 2.5 to 11.1). CONCLUSION: More than 80% of the public places in a jurisdiction in north India were compliant with the smoke-free legislation of India. ‘No smoking’ signages displayed as per legislation have an effect on curbing smoking behaviours at public places. It is recommended that policymakers should focus more on implementing the smoke-free law at transit sites and structured training sessions should be organised for owners of workplaces. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-07 2017-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6047142/ /pubmed/28798264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053559 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
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Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India
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title_full Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India
title_fullStr Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India
title_full_unstemmed Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India
title_short Compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from Punjab, India
title_sort compliance with smoke-free legislation and smoking behaviour: observational field study from punjab, india
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28798264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053559
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