Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-27-2021
Abstract
Studies are needed to understand the association between self-reported home smoking bans and objective measures of in-home smoking according to smokers’ ethnicity/nativity. Data came from a trial that used air particle monitors to reduce children’s secondhand smoke exposure in smokers’ households (N = 251). Linear regressions modeled (a) full home smoking bans by ethnicity/nativity, and (b) objectively measured in-home smoking events, predicted by main and interaction effects of self-reported home smoking bans and ethnicity/nativity. Among smokers reporting < a full ban, US-born and Foreign-born Latinos had fewer in-home smoking events than US-born Whites (p < 0.001). Participants who reported a full smoking ban had a similar frequency of smoking events regardless of ethnicity/nativity. Results indicate that self-reported home smoking bans can be used as a proxy for in-home smoking. Establishing smoking bans in the households of US-born White smokers has the largest impact on potential exposure compared to other ethnicity/nativity groups.
Recommended Citation
Berardi, V., Bostean, G., Ong, L., et al. The Role of Ethnicity and Nativity in the Correspondence between Subjective and Objective Measures of In-Home Smoking. J Immigrant Minority Health 24, 1214–1223 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01307-3
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Springer
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Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, volume 24, issue 5, in 2022. The final publication may differ and is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01307-3
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