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Tobacco Control 2004;13:96
© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

LETTER

Support for protection from secondhand smoke: California 2002

E A Gilpin1, L Lee1, J P Pierce1, H Tang2, J Lloyd2

1 Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California San Diego, Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, USA
2 California Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section, Sacramento, California, USA

Correspondence to:
J P Pierce, PhD;
jppierce@ucsd.edu

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

California banned smoking in most indoor workplaces in 1995, and the ban was extended to bars and gaming rooms in January 1998. This letter summarises new data from the 2002 California Tobacco Survey (CTS) about California adults’ attitudes regarding where smoking should not be allowed in venues not already smoke-free by law.

As with previous administrations of the CTS, this large, population based, random-digit-dialled survey used a screener interview with a household adult to enumerate residents with respect to demographics and smoking status. Adults were randomly selected for an extended 25 minute interview based on age and smoking status. The response rate among those selected for interview was 63%. To compute population estimates (and 95% confidence intervals), base weights were determined from the selection probability and further adjusted to census totals.1

The 20 525 adult respondents to the 2002 CTS were asked to state whether smoking should be allowed or . . . [Full text of this article]






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