- Title
- Workplace-related smoking in New South Wales: extent of bans, public attitudes and relationships with relapse
- Creator
- Walsh, Raoul A.; Paul, Christine L.; Paras, Lorraine; Stacey, Fiona; Tzelepis, Flora
- Relation
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia Vol. 22, Issue 2, p. 85-90
- Relation
- http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HE11085.htm
- Publisher
- Australian Health Promotion Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Issue addressed: Little research has examined issues surrounding employee smoking outside smoke-free workplaces. The study’s aims were to: 1) document the proportion of NSW indoor employees covered by total workplace smoking bans; 2) examine community perceptions of employee smoking during working hours; 3) identify the characteristics of having a supportive attitude toward tobacco control in the workplace; and 4) describe relationships between smoking relapse and workplace-related smoking. Methods: Two cross-sectional, computer-assisted telephone interview surveys of randomly selected adults were conducted. Consent rates were 49.1% in 2004 and 45.8% in 2006, with sample sizes of 1,158 and 2,393 respectively. Results: Total workplace bans were reported by 92.9% of indoor employees. Community attitudes to smoking in working hours were highly negative: 77.7% agreed smoking breaks waste too much time and 85.1% opposed smoking near workplace doorways. Being female, born in Australia and a non-smoker were associated with more negative attitudes. A higher proportion of smokers (78.3%) perceived smoking was more common outside their place of work or study than at five other locations: rail/bus stop (60.2%), friends’ houses (59.3%), own street (35.2%), parks (34.3%), and outside school (22.6%). Of smokers making a quit attempt in the past year, 42.1% relapsed at home, 22.1% at licensed premises and 18.7% at work. Conclusions: Findings emphasise the low support for smoking during or near work. Smoking outside workplaces is highly visible. Data on relapse suggest a modest relationship with workplace-related smoking.
- Subject
- smoking; tobacco; workplace smoking; second hand smoke; relapse; surveys
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1042802
- Identifier
- uon:14128
- Identifier
- ISSN:1036-1073
- Language
- eng
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