ArticleAmerican journal of public health1989
The power of policy: the relationship of smoking policy to adolescent smoking.
Article in American journal of public health, 1989. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- School policies for preventing smoking among young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
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- Economic Evaluation of Five Tobacco Control Policies Across Seven European Countries.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Impact of an Outdoor Smoking Ban at Secondary Schools on Cigarettes, E-Cigarettes and Water Pipe Use among Adolescents: An 18-Month Follow-Up.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- 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
- Multiple Levels of Influence That Impact Youth Tobacco Use.Tobacco regulatory science · 2016Article
- Evaluating Community Readiness to Implement Environmental and Policy-Based Alcohol Abuse Prevention Strategies in Wisconsin.Journal of alcohol and drug education · 2013Article
- The impact of school alcohol policy on student drinking.Health education research · 2013Article
- School and community predictors of smoking: a longitudinal study of Canadian high schools.American journal of public health · 2013Article
- Effect of a smoking ban and school-based prevention and control policies on adolescent smoking in Spain: a multilevel analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2012Article
- Community-level determinants of tobacco use disparities in lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth: results from a population-based study.Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2011Article
- The influence of school policies on smoking prevalence among students in grades 5-9, Canada, 2004-2005.Preventing chronic disease · 2010Article
- Perceived enforcement of school tobacco policy and adolescents' cigarette smoking.Preventive medicine · 2009Article
- Students' perception of community disapproval, perceived enforcement of school antismoking policies, personal beliefs, and their cigarette smoking behaviors: results from a structural equation modeling analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2009Article
- Responses to positive results from suspicionless random drug tests in US public school districts.The Journal of school health · 2009Article
- Smoking patterns in Oregon youth: effects of funding and defunding of a comprehensive state tobacco control program.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2009Article
- The relationship between school policies and youth tobacco use.The Journal of school health · 2009Article
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Abstract
This study examined the effects of smoking policy on 4,807 adolescents in 23 schools over a two-county area in California. Amounts and prevalence rates of adolescent smoking were measured with a self-report survey and a biochemical measure; school smoking policy was measured with two independent surveys of school staff. Policy effects were evaluated with multiple and logistic regression analyses controlling for school-level socioeconomic status and environmental support for teaching and administration. Of the 23 schools, 100 percent had a formal written and regularly enforced policy component restricting student smoking on school grounds, 94 percent restricted students leaving school grounds, 65 percent restricted smoking near school grounds, and 57 percent had a smoking prevention education plan. Schools with policies having all four versus less than four components, high versus low emphasis on prevention, and a low versus high emphasis on cessation reported lower amounts of smoking in the last week and in the last 24 hours. Punitive consequences of policy violation had no effect. Results were compared to school staff observations of adolescent smoking, and school archival records of student smoking violations in the last year. Results suggest that school smoking policy is associated with decreased amounts of smoking in adolescents.
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