Blackburn, Clare, Spencer, Nick, Bonas, Sheila, Coe, Christine, Dolan, Alan and Moy, Rob (2003) Effect of strategies to reduce exposure of infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home : cross sectional survey. BMJ, Vol.327 (No.7409). doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7409.257 ISSN 0959-535X.

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Abstract

Objective To examine parents' reported knowledge
and use of harm reduction strategies to protect their
infants from exposure to tobacco smoke in the home,
and the relation between reported use of strategies
and urinary cotinine to creatinine ratios in the infants.
Design Cross sectional survey.
Settings Coventry and Birmingham.
Main outcome measures Parents’ reported
knowledge and use of harm reduction strategies and
urinary cotinine to creatinine ratios in their infants.
Participants 314 smoking households with infants.
Results 86% of parents (264/307) believed that
environmental tobacco smoke is harmful, 90%
(281/314) believed that infants can be protected from
it in the home, and 10% (32/314) were either unaware
of measures or reported using none. 65% of parents
(205/314) reported using two or more measures, but
only 18% (58/314) reported not allowing smoking in
the home. No difference was found in mean log e
transformed urinary cotinine to creatinine ratio in
infants from households that used no measures
compared with households that used less strict
measures. Mean log cotinine to creatinine ratios were
significantly different in households banning smoking
in the home compared with those using less strict or
no measures. Banning smoking in the home was
independently associated with a significant reduction
in urinary cotinine to creatinine ratio by a factor of
2.6 (1.6 to 4.2) after adjustment for average household
cigarette consumption, tenure, and overcrowding.
Conclusions Less than a fifth of parents in smoking
households ban smoking in the home. Banning
smoking was associated with a small but significant
reduction in urinary cotinine to creatinine ratio in
infants, whereas less strict measures compared with
no measures had no effect on the infants’ exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Health and Social Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Passive smoking in infants, Smoke prevention, Nonsmoking areas
Journal or Publication Title:	BMJ
Publisher:	BMJ Group
ISSN:	0959-535X
Official Date:	2 August 2003
Dates:	Date Event 2 August 2003 Published
Volume:	Vol.327
Number:	No.7409
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.327.7409.257
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Funder:	Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (Great Britain)
Grant number:	266 (FSID)

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