Journal ArticleDOI
A Population Survey in Ontario Regarding Restrictive Measures on Smoking: Relationship of Smoking Status to Knowledge, Attitudes and Predicted Behaviour
TLDR
Never and former smokers were in close agreement and were more restrictive in their attitudes than current smokers, and Prohibition was more strongly favoured by all groups for health and day care facilities, schools, stores, and local transit systems than for other settings.Abstract:
A population survey of Ontario residents regarding knowledge of the health effects of smoking, attitudes towards restrictive measures, and predicted behaviour was carried out. Telephone responses of 490 current, 290 former, and 581 never smokers were compared. For both active and passive smoking, never smokers were most knowledgeable about health effects, former smokers being less knowledgeable, and current smokers least so. While a majority of each smoking status group supported some restriction on smoking in all 13 settings examined, there were consistent differences among the groups as to degree. Never and former smokers were in close agreement and were more restrictive in their attitudes than current smokers. Prohibition was more strongly favoured by all groups for health and day care facilities, schools, stores, and local transit systems than for other settings. While a majority of smokers thought there would be compliance with restrictions, non-smokers were less optimistic. Smokers were less likely than non-smokers to see a role for governments in enactment; municipal involvement was favoured over other levels by all groups. No group indicated much support for enforcement by police. These findings remained when multivariate analyses controlling for inter-group differences in sociodemographic characteristics were carried out.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Heterogeneity among smokers and non-smokers in attitudes and behaviour regarding smoking and smoking restrictions
Blake Poland,Joanna E. Cohen,Mary Jane Ashley,Ed Adlaf,Roberta Ferrence,Linda L. Pederson,Shelley B. Bull,Dennis Raphael +7 more
TL;DR: Recognition and consideration of the types of smokers and non-smokers in the population and their distinguishing characteristics could inform the development of tobacco control policies and programmes and suggest strategies to assist implementation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Attitudes towards smoking policies and tobacco control measures in relation to smoking status and smoking behaviour.
TL;DR: Even in a country with poor tobacco control conditions, lifetime smokers including smokers with highly unfavourable smoking behaviours strongly support smoking policies and tobacco control measures concerning penalties and advertising/promotion.
Journal ArticleDOI
Knowledge about tobacco and attitudes toward tobacco control: how different are smokers and nonsmokers?
Mary Jane Ashley,Joanna E. Cohen,Shelley B. Bull,Roberta Ferrence,Blake Poland,Linda L. Pederson,Joseph Gao +6 more
TL;DR: Both knowledge and smoking status were independently associated with support for more restrictions and other tobacco control policy measures and support for other control measures also differed by smoking status.
Journal ArticleDOI
Geographical variation in attitudes towards smoking: findings from the COMMIT communities.
Nancy A. Ross,S. Martin Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that public health efforts to control smoking should continue to be targeted beyond individual smokers to the broader social environment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Quitting smoking: why, how, and what might help.
TL;DR: Findings support a multifaceted approach to tobacco control in the population of Ontario, Canada.