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The impact of school tobacco policies on student smoking in Washington State, United States and Victoria, Australia
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posted on 2010-02-01, 00:00 authored by T Evans-Whipp, L Bond, O Ukoumunne, John ToumbourouJohn Toumbourou, R CatalanoThis paper measures tobacco polices in statewide representative samples of secondary and mixed schools in Victoria, Australia and Washington, US (N = 3,466 students from 285 schools) and tests their association with student smoking. Results from confounder-adjusted random effects (multi-level) regression models revealed that the odds of student perception of peer smoking on school grounds are decreased in schools that have strict enforcement of policy (odds ratio (OR) = 0.45; 95% CI: 0.25 to 0.82; p = 0.009). There was no clear evidence in this study that a comprehensive smoking ban, harsh penalties, remedial penalties, harm minimization policy or abstinence policy impact on any of the smoking outcomes.
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthVolume
7Issue
3Pagination
698 - 710Publisher
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (M D P I)Location
Basel, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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1660-4601eISSN
1661-7827Language
engNotes
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