Open AccessHousehold Smoking Bans and Adolescent Antismoking Attitudes and Smoking Initiation: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of a Massachusetts Youth Cohort
Author(s) -
Alison B. Albers,
Lois Biener,
Michael Siegel,
Debbie M. Cheng,
Nancy A. Rigotti
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.129320
Subject(s) - medicine , odds , odds ratio , confidence interval , demography , cohort , longitudinal study , young adult , cohort study , environmental health , public health , gerontology , logistic regression , nursing , pathology , sociology
We sought to determine whether adolescents living in households in which smoking was banned were more likely to develop antismoking attitudes and less likely to progress to smoking compared with those living in households in which smoking was not banned.