ArticlePreventive medicine2009
Perceived enforcement of school tobacco policy and adolescents' cigarette smoking.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- School policies for preventing smoking among young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2012Guideline
- Design of a school-based randomized trial to reduce smoking among 13 to 15-year olds, the X:IT study.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Why school tobacco bans fail: staff engagement in enforcement in Belgian schools.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Tobacco-Free Schools in Practice: Policy Presence and Enforcement in Baltimore Schools.Advances in respiratory medicine · 2025Article
- Smoking Susceptibility and Anti-Smoking Awareness in Adolescents and Young Adults of Bangladesh.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Policy Awareness Outweighs Health Knowledge: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of Tobacco Quit Intention Determinants in Vietnam's Provincial Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2024.Tobacco use insights · 2025Article
- The Diffusion of Smoking: Association Between School Tobacco Policies and the Diffusion of Adolescent Smoking in 38 Schools in 6 Countries.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Facilitating conditions for staff's confidence to enforce school tobacco policies: qualitative analysis from seven European cities.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
- Intervention Activities Associated with the Implementation of a Comprehensive School Tobacco Policy at Danish Vocational Schools: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- An Overview of Tobacco Policies in Kansas Unified School Districts.Kansas journal of medicine · 2022Article
- Are Danish vocational schools ready to implement "smoke-free school hours"? A qualitative study informed by the theory of organizational readiness for change.Implementation science communications · 2021Article
- Programme theory and realist evaluation of the 'Smoke-Free Vocational Schools' research and intervention project: a study protocol.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Campus Policy on Tobacco Prohibition and Tobacco Use among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Investigation Based on the Perspectives of School Personnel.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Smoke-free-school-hours at vocational education and training schools in Denmark: attitudes among managers and teaching staff - a national cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Study protocol of the X:IT II - a school-based smoking preventive intervention.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Tobacco use patterns, knowledge, attitudes towards tobacco and availability of tobacco control training among school personnel from a rural area in Poland.Tobacco induced diseases · 2017Article
- Do stronger school smoking policies make a difference? Analysis of the health behaviour in school-aged children survey.European journal of public health · 2016Article
- Tobacco outlet density, retailer cigarette sales without ID checks and enforcement of underage tobacco laws: associations with youths' cigarette smoking and beliefs.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Article
- Smoking in school-aged adolescents: design of a social network survey in six European countries.BMC research notes · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivesSchool tobacco use policies are part of a comprehensive strategy for preventing or reducing adolescent cigarette smoking. This study examines the relationship between perceived tobacco policy enforcement at the school level and smoking behaviors among students.
methods21,281 middle and high school students of 255 schools participated in the 2006 Oregon Health Teens Survey. Multilevel logistic regression was conducted, using a school-level policy enforcement measure based on aggregated student reports, and individual-level characteristics (e.g., age, gender, cigarette smoking before age 12, personal beliefs about smoking) as predictors of past-30-day cigarette smoking behaviors (e.g., any smoking, daily smoking, heavy episodic smoking, smoking on school property).
resultsHigher levels of perceived enforcement of anti-smoking policy at the school level were inversely associated with the prevalence of past-30-day smoking behaviors, independent of individual-level predictors.
conclusionsStricter enforcement of school policies against tobacco use may help prevent or reduce adolescents' cigarette smoking on and outside of school property.
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