TY - JOUR
T1 - Do smokers want to protect non-smokers from the harms of second-hand smoke in cars? Findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys
AU - EUREST-PLUS consortium
AU - Nogueira, Sarah O.
AU - Tigova, Olena
AU - Driezen, Pete
AU - Fu, Marcela
AU - Kyriakos, Christina N.
AU - Zatoński, Mateusz
AU - Mons, Ute
AU - Quah, Anne C.K.
AU - Demjén, Tibor
AU - Trofor, Antigona C.
AU - Przewoźniak, Krzysztof
AU - Katsaounou, Paraskevi
AU - Fong, Geoffrey T.
AU - Vardavas, Constantine I.
AU - Fernández, Esteve
AU - Glahn, Andrea
AU - Nguyen, Dominick
AU - Nikitara, Katerina
AU - Radu-Loghin, Cornel
AU - Starchenko, Polina
AU - Tsatsakis, Aristidis
AU - Girvalaki, Charis
AU - Igoumenaki, Chryssi
AU - Papadakis, Sophia
AU - Papathanasaki, Aikaterini
AU - Tzatzarakis, Manolis
AU - Vardavas, Alexander I.
AU - Bécuwe, Nicolas
AU - Deaconu, Lavinia
AU - Goudet, Sophie
AU - Hanley, Christopher
AU - Rivière, Oscar
AU - Kiss, Judit
AU - Kovacs, Anna Piroska
AU - Castellano, Yolanda
AU - McNeill, Ann
AU - East, Katherine
AU - Hitchman, Sara C.
AU - Kahnert, Sarah
AU - Tountas, Yannis
AU - Behrakis, Panagiotis
AU - Filippidis, Filippos T.
AU - Gratziou, Christina
AU - Katsaounou, Paraskevi
AU - Peleki, Theodosia
AU - Petroulia, Ioanna
AU - Tzavara, Chara
AU - Eremia, Marius
AU - Lotrean, Lucia
AU - Mihaltan, Florin
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Background: There is currently no comprehensive legislation protecting non-smokers and children from secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in private cars at the European Union (EU) level. This study aims to assess smokers’ support for smoke-free cars legislation in six EU countries. Methods: Data come from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys: Wave 1 (2016, n ¼ 6011) and Wave 2 (2018, n ¼ 6027) conducted in Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain. Support for smoke-free cars carrying pre-school children and non-smokers and voluntary implementation of smoke-free cars were assessed among adult smokers. Generalized estimating equations models were used to assess changes in support between waves. Results: In 2018, 96.3% [95% confidence interval (CI) 95.4–97.0%] of the overall sample supported smoke-free legislation for cars carrying pre-school children, representing an increase of 2.4 percentage points in comparison to 2016. Smoke-free legislation for cars transporting non-smokers was supported by 85.2% (95% CI 83.1–87.1%) of smokers’ in 2016 and 90.2% (95% CI 88.6–91.7%) in 2018. Among smokers who owned cars, there was a significant 7.2 percentage points increase in voluntary implementation of smoke-free cars carrying children from 2016 (60.7%, 95% CI 57.2–64.0%) to 2018 (67.9%, 95% CI 65.1–70.5%). All sociodemographic groups of smokers reported support higher than 80% in 2018. Conclusion: The vast majority of smokers in all six EU countries support smoke-free legislation for cars carrying pre-school children and non-smokers. This almost universal support across countries and sociodemographic groups is a clear indicator of a window of opportunity for the introduction of comprehensive legislation to protect non-smokers and children from SHS exposure in cars.
AB - Background: There is currently no comprehensive legislation protecting non-smokers and children from secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in private cars at the European Union (EU) level. This study aims to assess smokers’ support for smoke-free cars legislation in six EU countries. Methods: Data come from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys: Wave 1 (2016, n ¼ 6011) and Wave 2 (2018, n ¼ 6027) conducted in Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain. Support for smoke-free cars carrying pre-school children and non-smokers and voluntary implementation of smoke-free cars were assessed among adult smokers. Generalized estimating equations models were used to assess changes in support between waves. Results: In 2018, 96.3% [95% confidence interval (CI) 95.4–97.0%] of the overall sample supported smoke-free legislation for cars carrying pre-school children, representing an increase of 2.4 percentage points in comparison to 2016. Smoke-free legislation for cars transporting non-smokers was supported by 85.2% (95% CI 83.1–87.1%) of smokers’ in 2016 and 90.2% (95% CI 88.6–91.7%) in 2018. Among smokers who owned cars, there was a significant 7.2 percentage points increase in voluntary implementation of smoke-free cars carrying children from 2016 (60.7%, 95% CI 57.2–64.0%) to 2018 (67.9%, 95% CI 65.1–70.5%). All sociodemographic groups of smokers reported support higher than 80% in 2018. Conclusion: The vast majority of smokers in all six EU countries support smoke-free legislation for cars carrying pre-school children and non-smokers. This almost universal support across countries and sociodemographic groups is a clear indicator of a window of opportunity for the introduction of comprehensive legislation to protect non-smokers and children from SHS exposure in cars.
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U2 - 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa056
DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa056
M3 - Article
C2 - 32918821
AN - SCOPUS:85090920675
SN - 1101-1262
VL - 30
SP - III108-III112
JO - European journal of public health
JF - European journal of public health
ER -