Open AccessYoung Peoples' support for a smoke-free campus policy: A case for smoke-free campuses in the statewide smoking law in Lagos State, Nigeria
Author(s) -
Yetunde Morenike Atiba,
Tope Olubodun,
Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of african medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1596-3519
DOI - 10.4103/aam.aam_27_19
Subject(s) - medicine , smoke , capital city , environmental health , tobacco control , cross sectional study , anger , feeling , descriptive statistics , public health , psychology , nursing , social psychology , geography , economic geography , psychiatry , meteorology , statistics , mathematics , pathology
Smoke-free policies are increasingly being enacted in several countries. In 2014, Lagos State, the commercial capital of Nigeria, enacted a statewide smoke-free policy; however, university campuses were excluded from the list of public places where smoking would be disallowed. This study aimed to assess students' support for smoke-free campus policies, their attitudes, and exposure toward secondhand smoke (SHS).