Table 1

Home smoking restrictions and smoking behaviour among smokers, pre-legislation (pre-law) and post-legislation (post-law) (%)

	Intervention countries								Control country
	Ireland		France		Germany		Netherlands		UK
	Pre-law	Post-law	Pre-law	Post-law	Pre-law	Post-law	Pre-law	Post-law	Pre-law 1	Pre-law 2
Home smoking restrictions among baseline smokers
N	767		1231		1000		1627		1077
% total HSB	17.0	21.3	24.1	28.2	29.7	40.9	14.6	18.7	24.0	29.3
% partial restrictions	49.4	50.3	61.5	60.3	55.7	47.8	59.5	60.8	50.8	48.9
% no restrictions	33.6	28.4	14.4	11.6	14.6	11.3	25.9	20.5	25.2	21.8
p Value^*	0.003		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001
Home smoking restrictions among continuing smokers
N	597		1067		875		1443		907
% total HSB	14.6	16.1	23.0	25.6	27.7	38.2	14.2	17.1	23.4	25.4
% partial restrictions	47.2	51.0	61.6	62.0	56.3	49.6	59.5	61.0	51.3	50.5
% no restrictions	38.2	32.9	15.4	12.4	16.1	12.2	26.3	22.0	25.3	24.0
p Value^*	0.031		0.003		<0.001		<0.001		0.201
Cigarettes smoked per day at home among continuing smokers with no HSB at both measurements
N	–^†		580		444		1105		–^†
Arithmetic mean	–^†	–^†	5.6	5.5	6.6	6.0	6.4	5.9	–^†	–^†
p Value^‡	–^†		0.469		<0.001		<0.001		–^†
Cigarettes smoked per day among continuing smokers
N	594		1067		871		1428		907
Arithmetic mean	19.3	18.0	12.6	12.5	15.5	14.7	15.6	15.2	17.8	16.2
p Value^‡	<0.001		0.777		<0.001		0.005		0.121