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Impact of banning smoking in cars with children on exposure to second-hand smoke : a natural experiment in England and Scotland
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Laverty, Anthony A., Hone, Thomas V., Vamos, Eszter P., Anyanwu, Philip E., Taylor-Robinson, David, de Vocht, Frank, Millett, Christopher and Hopkinson, Nicholas S. (2020) Impact of banning smoking in cars with children on exposure to second-hand smoke : a natural experiment in England and Scotland. Thorax, 75 (4). pp. 345-347. doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-213998 ISSN 0040-6376.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-213998
Abstract
England banned smoking in cars carrying children in 2015 and Scotland in 2016. We used survey data from 3 years for both countries (NEngland=3483-6920, NScotland=232-319) to assess effects of the English ban using logistic regression within a difference-in-differences framework. Among children aged 13-15 years, self-reported levels of regular exposure to smoke in cars for Scotland were 3.4% in 2012, 2.2% in 2014 and 1.3% in 2016 and for England 6.3%, 5.9% and 1.6%. The ban in England was associated with a -4.1% (95% CI -4.9% to -3.3%) absolute reduction (72% relative reduction) in exposure to tobacco smoke among children.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Tobacco use -- Prevention, Smoking -- Prevention, Passive smoking in children -- Health aspects, Tobacco smoke pollution -- prevention & control, Automobile driving -- Health aspects, Health promotion | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Thorax | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | BMJ | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0040-6376 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 27 March 2020 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 75 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 345-347 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-213998 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 May 2023 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 May 2023 | ||||||||||||
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