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Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences
BACKGROUND: People remain exposed to secondhand smoke, a serious health hazard, inside their home as households face challenges in setting no-smoking rules or are exposed to secondhand smoke drifting in from neighbouring homes. This study explores the psychosocial impacts, views, and experiences wit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35690740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13561-7 |
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author | Tan, Grace Ping Ping Teo, Odelia van der Eijk, Yvette |
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description | BACKGROUND: People remain exposed to secondhand smoke, a serious health hazard, inside their home as households face challenges in setting no-smoking rules or are exposed to secondhand smoke drifting in from neighbouring homes. This study explores the psychosocial impacts, views, and experiences with residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting. METHODS: In-depth online or face to face interviews with 18 key informants who had been involved in public discourse, policy, advocacy or handling complaints related to residential secondhand smoke, 14 smokers, and 16 non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke inside their home. All participants were residents of Singapore, a densely populated, multi-ethnic city-state. Interview transcripts were coded in NVivo using a deductive and inductive coding process. FINDINGS: Secondhand smoke has wide-reaching impacts on physical and psychosocial wellbeing, even if smokers tried to minimise secondhand smoke. Feelings of anxiety and stress are generally tied to feeling discomfort in one’s personal space, a perceived lack of control over the situation, resentment towards smokers, and concerns over the health effects. Family, community, and cultural dynamics add complexities to tackling the issue, especially in patriarchal households. Secondhand smoke exposure from neighbours is considered a widespread issue, exacerbated by structural factors such as building layout and the COVID-19 pandemic. Resolving the issue amicably is considered challenging due to the absence of regulations and a reluctance to stir up conflict with neighbours. While smokers took measures to reduce secondhand smoke, these were described as ineffective by other participants. Smokers appeared to have contrasting views from other participants on what it means to smoke in a socially responsible manner. CONCLUSION: Given the wide-reaching psychosocial impacts of residential secondhand smoke, there is a case for stronger interventions, especially in densely populated urban settings where it is more difficult to avoid. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-13561-7. |
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spelling | pubmed-91878832022-06-12 Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences Tan, Grace Ping Ping Teo, Odelia van der Eijk, Yvette BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: People remain exposed to secondhand smoke, a serious health hazard, inside their home as households face challenges in setting no-smoking rules or are exposed to secondhand smoke drifting in from neighbouring homes. This study explores the psychosocial impacts, views, and experiences with residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting. METHODS: In-depth online or face to face interviews with 18 key informants who had been involved in public discourse, policy, advocacy or handling complaints related to residential secondhand smoke, 14 smokers, and 16 non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke inside their home. All participants were residents of Singapore, a densely populated, multi-ethnic city-state. Interview transcripts were coded in NVivo using a deductive and inductive coding process. FINDINGS: Secondhand smoke has wide-reaching impacts on physical and psychosocial wellbeing, even if smokers tried to minimise secondhand smoke. Feelings of anxiety and stress are generally tied to feeling discomfort in one’s personal space, a perceived lack of control over the situation, resentment towards smokers, and concerns over the health effects. Family, community, and cultural dynamics add complexities to tackling the issue, especially in patriarchal households. Secondhand smoke exposure from neighbours is considered a widespread issue, exacerbated by structural factors such as building layout and the COVID-19 pandemic. Resolving the issue amicably is considered challenging due to the absence of regulations and a reluctance to stir up conflict with neighbours. While smokers took measures to reduce secondhand smoke, these were described as ineffective by other participants. Smokers appeared to have contrasting views from other participants on what it means to smoke in a socially responsible manner. CONCLUSION: Given the wide-reaching psychosocial impacts of residential secondhand smoke, there is a case for stronger interventions, especially in densely populated urban settings where it is more difficult to avoid. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-13561-7. BioMed Central 2022-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9187883/ /pubmed/35690740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13561-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Tan, Grace Ping Ping Teo, Odelia van der Eijk, Yvette Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
title | Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
title_full | Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
title_fullStr | Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
title_full_unstemmed | Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
title_short | Residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
title_sort | residential secondhand smoke in a densely populated urban setting: a qualitative exploration of psychosocial impacts, views and experiences |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35690740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13561-7 |
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