ArticleTobacco control2013
Association between local indoor smoking ordinances in Massachusetts and cigarette smoking during pregnancy: a multilevel analysis.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Legislative smoking bans for reducing harms from secondhand smoke exposure, smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Active or passive maternal smoking increases the risk of low birth weight or preterm delivery: Benefits of cessation and tobacco control policies.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Review
- Effect of Local Smoke-Free Ordinances on Smoking Prevalence in Kentucky, 2002-2009.Southern medical journal · 2019Article
- Tobacco policy reform and population-wide antismoking activities in Australia: the impact on smoking during pregnancy.Tobacco control · 2018Article
- Effect of tobacco control policies on perinatal and child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2017Article
- Smoke-free legislation and child health.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2016Review
- Tobacco control policies and perinatal health: a national quasi-experimental study.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Geographic Variation in Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy in the Missouri Adolescent Female Twin Study (MOAFTS).PloS one · 2016Article
- Substance Use in the Perinatal Period.Current psychiatry reports · 2015Review
- Impact of smoke-free legislation on perinatal and infant mortality: a national quasi-experimental study.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- What distinguishes successful from unsuccessful tobacco smoking cessation? Data from a study of young adults (TEMPO).Preventive medicine reports · 2015Article
- An international smoking ban-how many lives will be saved?Current atherosclerosis reports · 2014Review
- Association of strong smoke-free laws with dentists' advice to quit smoking, 2006-2007.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Expansion of Medicaid covered smoking cessation services: maternal smoking and birth outcomes.Medicare & medicaid research review · 2013Article
- Smoke-free-home rules among women with infants, 2004-2008.Preventing chronic disease · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate the association between local clean indoor air ordinances and prenatal maternal smoking across 351 municipalities in Massachusetts before the 2004 statewide ban and to test the effect of time since ordinance adoption on the association.
methodsThe authors linked 2002 birth certificate data of women who gave birth in the state and reported a Massachusetts residence (n=67,584) to a database of indoor smoking ordinances in all municipalities. Multilevel regression models accounting for individual- and municipality-level variables estimate the associations between the presence of local smoking ordinances, strength of the ordinances, time since ordinance adoption and prenatal smoking.
resultsCompared with those living in municipalities with no ordinances, women living in municipalities with a smoking ordinance had lower odds of prenatal smoking (OR=0.72, CI=0.53 to 0.98). No effect was found for 100% smoke-free ordinances. For the analyses testing the effect of time, pregnant women living in municipalities with ordinances enacted >2 years were less likely to smoke than those in municipalities with more recent (<1 year) ordinances.
conclusionsPreventing smoking among women of reproductive age is a public health priority. This study suggests that indoor smoking ordinances were associated with lower prenatal smoking prevalence and the favourable effect increased over time. Findings highlight the public health benefit of tobacco control policies.
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