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Growing evidence for new benefit of clean indoor air laws: reduced adolescent smoking

¹ Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
² Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, USA

Correspondence to:
Dr Melanie Wakefield
Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia; melanie.wakefield@cancervic.org.au

Keywords: adolescent; smoke-free laws; social norms

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As the evidence for the risks of harm from exposure to secondhand smoke has grown, so laws and policies to protect workers, children, and other community members from exposure have escalated. Clean indoor air laws are gradually becoming more common, even in traditionally hard to change venues such as restaurants and bars, with countries such as Ireland, Norway, New Zealand, Italy, most Australian states, and a growing number of US states and cities having passed laws eliminating indoor smoking in such venues. While this is good news for protecting the health of non-smokers, researchers have begun to document another less obvious, but equally welcome, consequence of these changing circumstances in where people can freely smoke.

Until now, only cross sectional research studies had noted a relationship between clean indoor air laws and reduced adolescent smoking.^1–3 In this issue, Siegel and colleagues report findings from the first longitudinal study . . . [Full text of this article]

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