1. Effect of anti-smoking legislation on school staff smoking may dissipate over time.
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O’Loughlin, Erin K., Tremblay, Michèle, Dugas, Erika N., Barry, Amadou-diogo, and O’Loughlin, Jennifer L.
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SMOKING laws ,ANALYSIS of variance ,HIGH school students ,LONGITUDINAL method ,MIDDLE school students ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,REGRESSION analysis ,RESEARCH funding ,STATISTICAL sampling ,SCHOOL administrators ,SCHOOL children ,STATISTICS ,STUDENT attitudes ,TEACHERS ,DATA analysis ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,PRE-tests & post-tests ,REPEATED measures design ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
This study describes student perceptions of school staff smoking before and after implementation of legislation prohibiting smoking on school grounds. Students completed self-report questionnaires before (grade 6) and after (grade 7, 9 and 11) the law. The percentage of students reporting that school staff smoked in areas where smoking is forbidden was 19%, 32% and 33% in grade 7, 9 and 11, respectively. The mean(SD) score for the frequency with which students saw school staff smoking decreased after the ban but increased thereafter [2.5(1.1), 1.9(1.0), 2.4(1.1) and 2.3(1.1)] in grade 6, 7, 9 and 11, respectively [F(2.861,1662.229) = 45.350, P < 0.001]. These data suggest that the effect of the law dissipated over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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