TY - JOUR
T1 - Personal space smoking restrictions among African Americans
AU - King, Gary
AU - Mallett, Robyn
AU - Kozlowski, Lynn
AU - Bendel, Robert B.
AU - Nahata, Sunny
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Substance Abuse Policy Research Program. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by Syretta Cherry and Joseph Valdez, whose contributions were supported in part by a grant from the Fogarty International Center’s Minority International Research Training Program (T37 TW00113-04S1). The authors also thank Dr. Dorothy Faulkner for comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript and Ellen Humphrey for editorial assistance.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - This paper investigates the association between implementing a personal space smoking restriction for the home or automobile, and various sociodemographic, social, behavioral, and attitudinal variables. Approximately 1000 African-American adults (aged >18 years) residing in non-institutionalized settings were randomly selected using a cross-sectional stratified cluster sample of ten U.S. congressional districts represented by African Americans. A 62.0% and 70.4% ban was found, respectively, on smoking in homes and cars. Multivariate analysis revealed that region, marital status, number of friends who smoked, beliefs about environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and smoking status predicted home smoking bans, while age, number of children in household, number of friends who smoked, and beliefs about ETS and smoking status predicted car smoking bans. Results suggest that a substantial segment of African Americans have accepted and translated public policy concerns about ETS into practice and reveal other variables that could be targeted in future interventions to increase implementation of personal space smoking restrictions.
AB - This paper investigates the association between implementing a personal space smoking restriction for the home or automobile, and various sociodemographic, social, behavioral, and attitudinal variables. Approximately 1000 African-American adults (aged >18 years) residing in non-institutionalized settings were randomly selected using a cross-sectional stratified cluster sample of ten U.S. congressional districts represented by African Americans. A 62.0% and 70.4% ban was found, respectively, on smoking in homes and cars. Multivariate analysis revealed that region, marital status, number of friends who smoked, beliefs about environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and smoking status predicted home smoking bans, while age, number of children in household, number of friends who smoked, and beliefs about ETS and smoking status predicted car smoking bans. Results suggest that a substantial segment of African Americans have accepted and translated public policy concerns about ETS into practice and reveal other variables that could be targeted in future interventions to increase implementation of personal space smoking restrictions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amepre.2004.09.025
DO - 10.1016/j.amepre.2004.09.025
M3 - Article
C2 - 15626553
AN - SCOPUS:11144243153
SN - 0749-3797
VL - 28
SP - 33
EP - 40
JO - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
JF - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
IS - 1
ER -
