ArticleBMC public health2008
Implementation of a workplace smoking ban in bars: the limits of local discretion.
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- Factors influencing the implementation of workplace-based health interventions for non-communicable disease prevention: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Monitoring compliance with national smokefree regulations eight months after implementation in Puebla and Aguascalientes, Mexico.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2026Article
- How much progress has been made toward a smoke-free environment in the restaurants and bars of Japan? Limitations of partial bans and their enforcement.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Legal and regulatory instruments for NCD prevention: a scoping review and descriptive analysis of evaluations in OECD countries.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A mixed-methods evaluation of the indoor and outdoor smoking ban in dining venues in Armenia: Early successes and challenges.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Article
- Adherence to the Tobacco Control Act, 2007: presence of a workplace policy on tobacco use in bars and restaurants in Nairobi, Kenya.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Clinicians' perceptions of implementation extensiveness of 100% tobacco free practices: a longitudinal study of New York state.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2014Article
- Moving from intersection to integration: public health law research and public health systems and services research.The Milbank quarterly · 2012Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn January 1998, the California state legislature extended a workplace smoking ban to bars. The purpose of this study was to explore the conditions that facilitate or hinder compliance with a smoking ban in bars.
methodsWe studied the implementation of the smoking ban in bars by interviewing three sets of policy participants: bar employers responsible for complying with the law; local government officials responsible for enforcing the law; and tobacco control activists who facilitated implementation. We transcribed the interviews and did a qualitative analysis of the text.
resultsThe conditions that facilitated bar owners' compliance with a smoking ban in bars included: if the cost to comply was minimal; if the bars with which they were in competition were in compliance with the smoking ban; and if there was authoritative, consistent, coordinated, and uniform enforcement. Conversely, the conditions that hindered compliance included: if the law had minimal sanctions; if competing bars in the area allowed smoking; and if enforcement was delayed or inadequate.
conclusionMany local enforcers wished to forfeit their local discretion and believed the workplace smoking ban in bars would be best implemented by a state agency. The potential implication of this study is that, given the complex nature of local politics, smoking bans in bars are best implemented at a broader provincial or national level.
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