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 |