Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
BMC Public Health. 2010 Aug 18;10:498. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-498.
Some countries have started to extend indoor smokefree laws to cover cars and various outdoor settings. However, policy-modifiable factors around smoker support for these new laws are not well described.
The New Zealand (NZ) arm of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Survey (ITC Project) derives its sample from the NZ Health Survey (a national sample). From this sample we surveyed adult smokers (n = 1376).
For the six settings considered, 59% of smokers supported at least three new completely smokefree areas. Only 2% favoured smoking being allowed in all the six new settings. Support among Maori, Pacific and Asian smokers relative to European smokers was elevated in multivariate analyses, but confidence intervals often included 1.0.Also in the multivariate analyses, "strong support" by smokers for new smokefree area laws was associated with greater knowledge of the second-hand smoke (SHS) hazard, and with behaviours to reduce SHS exposure towards others. Strong support was also associated with reporting having smokefree cars (aOR = 1.68, 95% CI = 1.21 - 2.34); and support for tobacco control regulatory measures by government (aOR = 1.63, 95% CI = 1.32 - 2.01). There was also stronger support by smokers with a form of financial stress (not spending on household essentials).
Smokers from a range of population groups can show majority support for new outdoor and smokefree car laws. Some of these findings are consistent with the use of public health strategies to support new smokefree laws, such as enhancing public knowledge of the second-hand smoke hazard.
一些国家已开始将室内禁烟令扩大到汽车和各种户外场所。然而，有关吸烟者对这些新法律的支持的可调整政策因素尚未得到充分描述。
国际烟草控制政策评估调查（ITC 项目）的新西兰（NZ）部分从 NZ 健康调查（全国性样本）中抽取样本。从该样本中，我们调查了成年吸烟者（n=1376）。
对于考虑的六个场所，59%的吸烟者支持至少三个新的完全无烟区。只有 2%的人赞成在所有六个新场所允许吸烟。在多元分析中，毛利人、太平洋岛民和亚裔吸烟者相对于欧洲吸烟者的支持率较高，但置信区间经常包括 1.0。同样在多元分析中，吸烟者对新的无烟区法律的“强烈支持”与对二手烟（SHS）危害的更多了解以及减少他人暴露于 SHS 的行为有关。强烈的支持也与报告拥有无烟汽车（OR=1.68，95%CI=1.21-2.34）以及对政府烟草控制监管措施的支持（OR=1.63，95%CI=1.32-2.01）有关。有财务压力（不用于家庭必需品的支出）的吸烟者也表现出更强的支持。
来自不同人群的吸烟者可以对新的户外和无烟汽车法律表示多数支持。这些发现中的一些与使用公共卫生策略来支持新的无烟法律一致，例如增强公众对二手烟危害的认识。
