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Smoke-Free Outdoor Seating Policy: 1-Year Changes in Compliance of Bars and Restaurants in Philadelphia
Pilar Ocampo1, Ryan Coffman1, Hannah Lawman1
1Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Purpose:
To evaluate changes in compliance with a smoke-free outdoor seating policy before and after passage of a local regulation in 2015, which reinterpreted Philadelphia's Clean Indoor Air Worker Protection Law to include outdoor seating areas of food or beverage establishments.
Design:
Natural experiment.
Setting:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sample:
Food or beverage establishments (N = 108). Establishments were comprised of sit-down restaurants, cafes, quick-service restaurants, and bars.
Measures:
Presence of outdoor smoking and smoking-related litter on a given day were measured as binary variables. A geographic information system-based survey developed for this study was used to collect observational data.
Analysis:
Logistic regressions were used to determine the change in odds of observing outdoor smoking and smoking-related litter on a given day from baseline (preregulation) to follow-up (postregulation).
Results:
Compliance with smoke-free outdoor seating increased from 84.5% to 95.4% after passage and implementation of the regulation. Results showed a significant 75% decrease (odds ratio [OR]: = 0.25, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.08-0.67) in odds of outdoor smoking and a slight decrease in smoking-related litter (OR: 0.81, 95% CI: 0.39-1.65) at follow-up in establishments overall. However, at baseline, bars had higher odds of outdoor smoking (OR: 2.68, 95% CI: 0.57-12.72) and smoking-related litter (OR: 4.09, 95% CI:, 1.87-9.49) compared to sit-down restaurants.
Conclusion:
Results suggest there is high compliance with low-cost, low-burden, smoke-free outdoor seating policy and that enforcement is best targeted toward bars.
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