TY - JOUR
TI - Smoking in public places in six European countries: Findings from the
EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Survey
AU - Fu, Marcela
AU - Castellano, Yolanda
AU - Tigova, Olena
AU - Mons, Ute and
AU - Agar, Thomas
AU - Kyriakos, Christina N.
AU - Trofor, Antigona C. and
AU - Quah, Anne C. K.
AU - Fong, Geoffrey T.
AU - Przewozniak, Krzysztof and
AU - Zatonski, Witold A.
AU - Demjen, Tibor
AU - Tountas, Yannis
AU - Vardavas,
AU - Constantine I.
AU - Fernandez, Esteve
AU - Glahn, Andrea
AU - Nguyen,
AU - Dominick
AU - Nikitara, Katerina
AU - Radu-Loghin, Cornel
AU - Starchenko,
AU - Polina
AU - Tsatsakis, Aristidis
AU - Girvalaki, Charis
AU - Igoumenaki,
AU - Chryssi
AU - Papadakis, Sophia
AU - Papathanasaki, Aikaterini and
AU - Tzatzarakis, Manolis
AU - Vardavas, Alexander I.
AU - Becuwe, Nicolas and
AU - Deaconu, Lavinia
AU - Goudet, Sophie
AU - Hanley, Christopher
AU - Riviere,
AU - Oscar
AU - Kiss, Judit
AU - Kovacs, Piroska A.
AU - Nogueira, Sarah O. and
AU - McNeill, Ann
AU - East, Katherine
AU - Hitchman, Sara C.
AU - Kahnert,
AU - Sarah
AU - Behrakis, Panagiotis
AU - Filippidis, Filippos T.
AU - Gratziou,
AU - Christina
AU - Katsaounou, Paraskevi
AU - Peleki, Theodosia
AU - Petroulia,
AU - Ioanna
AU - Tzavara, Chara
AU - Eremia, Marius
AU - Lotrean, Lucia and
AU - Mihaltan, Florin
AU - Rohde, Gernot
AU - Asano, Tamaki
AU - Cichon, Claudia
AU - and Far, Amy
AU - Genton, Celine
AU - Jessner, Melanie
AU - Hedman, Linnea
AU - and Janson, Christer
AU - Lindberg, Ann
AU - Maguire, Beth
AU - Ravara,
AU - Sofia
AU - Vaccaro, Valerie
AU - Ward, Brian
AU - Willemsen, Marc
AU - de
AU - Vries, Hein
AU - Hummel, Karin
AU - Nagelhout, Gera E.
AU - Herbec,
AU - Aleksandra
AU - Janik-Koncewicz, Kinga
AU - Zatonski, Mateusz
AU - Agar,
AU - Thomas K.
AU - Driezen, Pete
AU - Gravely, Shannon
AU - Thompson, Mary E.
AU - and EUREST-PLUS Consortium
JO - Tobacco Induced Diseases
PY - 2018
VL - 16
TODO - 2
SP - null
PB - EU EUROPEAN PUBLISHING
SN - 2070-7266, 1617-9625
TODO - 10.18332/tid/104673
TODO - smoking; smoke-free legislation; workplaces; leisure facilities;
hospitality venues
TODO - INTRODUCTION Surveillance of tobacco consumption in public places is an
important measure to evaluate the impact of tobacco control
interventions over time. The objective of this study was to estimate the
prevalence of smoking as seen by smokers and their smoking behaviour in
public places, in six European countries.
METHODS We used baseline data of the International Tobacco Control Six
European countries (ITC 6E) Survey, part of the EUREST-PLUS Project,
conducted in 2016 in national representative samples of about 1000 adult
smokers aged 18 years and older in Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland,
Romania and Spain. For each setting (workplaces, restaurants, bars/pubs
and discos) participants were asked whether they had seen someone
smoking during their last visit there and whether they too had smoked
there. We report the overall and by-country weighted prevalence of
seeing someone smoking and the smokers’ own smoking behaviour at each
setting. We also assess the relationship between seeing someone smoking
and smoking themselves at these settings.
RESULTS The prevalence of smoking as seen by smokers was 18.8% at
workplaces, with high variability among countries (from 4.7% in Hungary
to 40.8% in Greece). Among smokers visiting leisure facilities in the
last year, during their last visit 22.7% had seen someone smoking
inside restaurants and 12.2% had smoked themselves there, while for
bars/pubs the corresponding prevalences were 33.9% and 20.4%, and
inside discos 44.8% and 34.8%.
CONCLUSIONS Smoking is still prevalent at leisure facilities,
particularly at discos in Europe, with high variability among countries.
More extensive awareness campaigns and stricter enforcement are needed
to increase the compliance of smokefree regulations, especially in
leisure facilities.
ER -