Περίληψη:
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.
Συγγραφείς:
Fu, Marcela
Castellano, Yolanda
Tigova, Olena
Mons, Ute and
Agar, Thomas
Kyriakos, Christina N.
Trofor, Antigona C. and
Quah, Anne C. K.
Fong, Geoffrey T.
Przewozniak, Krzysztof and
Zatonski, Witold A.
Demjen, Tibor
Tountas, Yannis
Vardavas,
Constantine I.
Fernandez, Esteve
Glahn, Andrea
Nguyen,
Dominick
Nikitara, Katerina
Radu-Loghin, Cornel
Starchenko,
Polina
Tsatsakis, Aristidis
Girvalaki, Charis
Igoumenaki,
Chryssi
Papadakis, Sophia
Papathanasaki, Aikaterini and
Tzatzarakis, Manolis
Vardavas, Alexander I.
Becuwe, Nicolas and
Deaconu, Lavinia
Goudet, Sophie
Hanley, Christopher
Riviere,
Oscar
Kiss, Judit
Kovacs, Piroska A.
Nogueira, Sarah O. and
McNeill, Ann
East, Katherine
Hitchman, Sara C.
Kahnert,
Sarah
Behrakis, Panagiotis
Filippidis, Filippos T.
Gratziou,
Christina
Katsaounou, Paraskevi
Peleki, Theodosia
Petroulia,
Ioanna
Tzavara, Chara
Eremia, Marius
Lotrean, Lucia and
Mihaltan, Florin
Rohde, Gernot
Asano, Tamaki
Cichon, Claudia
and Far, Amy
Genton, Celine
Jessner, Melanie
Hedman, Linnea
and Janson, Christer
Lindberg, Ann
Maguire, Beth
Ravara,
Sofia
Vaccaro, Valerie
Ward, Brian
Willemsen, Marc
de
Vries, Hein
Hummel, Karin
Nagelhout, Gera E.
Herbec,
Aleksandra
Janik-Koncewicz, Kinga
Zatonski, Mateusz
Agar,
Thomas K.
Driezen, Pete
Gravely, Shannon
Thompson, Mary E.
and EUREST-PLUS Consortium
