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Published on: February 12, 2015
The effect of household smoking bans on household smoking
Michael Hennessy1, Amy Bleakley, Giridhar Mallya
1Michael Hennessy, Amy Bleakley, and Daniel Romer are with the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Giridhar Mallya is with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA.
Objectives:
Because household smoking levels and adoption of domestic smoking rules may be endogenously related, we estimated a nonrecursive regression model to determine the simultaneous relationship between home smoking restrictions and household smoking.
Methods:
We used data from a May-June 2012 survey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, households with smokers (n = 456) to determine the simultaneous association between smoking levels in the home and the presence of home restrictions on smoking.
Results:
We found that home smoking rules predicted smoking in the home but smoking in the home had no effect on home smoking restrictions.
Conclusions:
Absent in-home randomized experiments, a quasi-experimental causal inference suggesting that home smoking rules result in lower home smoking levels may be plausible.
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