Trial reportAmerican journal of public health1994
Effects of a restricted work-site smoking policy on employees who smoke.
Trial report in American journal of public health, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Workplace interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Effect of smoke-free workplaces on smoking behaviour: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002Pooled it
- The impact of smoke-free workplaces on declining cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States.American journal of public health · 1999Pooled it
- Response to smoking as a function of prior smoking amounts.Psychopharmacology · 1995Trial
- Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco as an Outgrowth of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nicotine Addiction: Reflections of the Early Presidents.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Review
- Going tobacco-free: predictors of clinician reactions and outcomes of the NY State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services tobacco-free regulation.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2013Article
- A qualitative examination of the positive and negative consequences associated with going tobacco-free in substance abuse treatment: the NY State experience.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2012Article
- Over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy: can its impact on smoking cessation be enhanced?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2008Review
- The use of salivary biomarkers in occupational and environmental medicine.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007Review
- Impact of home smoking rules on smoking patterns among adolescents and young adults.Preventing chronic disease · 2006Article
- Medium-sized business employees speak out about smoking.Journal of community health · 1999Article
- The effects of household and workplace smoking restrictions on quitting behaviours.Tobacco control · 1999Article
- Preventing tobacco use--the youth access trap.American journal of public health · 1996Article
- The Ontario ban on smoking on school property: perceived impact on smoking.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThis study evaluated the biological and subjective consequences observed in individual smokers after implementation of a workplace smoking-restriction policy.
methodsEmployees were evaluated for 4 weeks before and 4 weeks after their workplace became smoke-free (n = 34). A comparison group of smokers whose work-site smoking was unrestricted served as controls (n = 33). Daily exposure to tobacco constituents and withdrawal effects were measured.
resultsSmokers at the restricted site had verified smoking reduction (mean = four cigarettes per day) and significantly reduced nicotine and carbon monoxide during the work shift. There were increases in ratings of some common withdrawal symptoms (cravings/urges, concentration difficulties, increased eating, depression). No evidence of compensatory smoking during nonwork hours was found. Overall tobacco exposure, as measured in saliva cotinine, showed a nonsignificant 15% decline.
conclusionsWorkplace smoking restriction markedly altered smoking patterns (i.e., reduced daytime smoking) and reduced cotinine levels to an amount consistent with cigarette reduction. Thus, work-site smoking restriction may promote meaningful, albeit limited, reductions in tobacco exposure and consequent health risks.
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