TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe influence of school smoking policies on student tobacco use
AU  - Barnett TA, Gauvin L, Lambert M, O’Loughlin J, Paradis G, McGrath JJ
Y1  - 2007/09/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.161.9.842
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 842
EP  - 848
VL  - 161
IS  - 9
N2  - Objective 
    To investigate the association between smoking behavior among secondary school students and school smoking policies.Design 
    Cross-sectional provincially representative study.Setting 
    Quebec secondary schools.Participants 
    Complete data were available for 763 of 1058 students aged 13 years in 50 schools and for 768 of 1160 students aged 16 years in 57 schools. School principals provided data on school smoking policies.Main Exposure 
    School smoking policies.Outcome Measure 
    Student tobacco use.Results 
    Of students aged 13 years, 3.8% of boys and 7.1% of girls smoked daily; 21.0% of boys and 25.2% of girls aged 16 years smoked daily. Of schools, 28.0% permitted staff to smoke indoors, 84.1% permitted staff to smoke outdoors on school grounds, and 83.2% permitted students to smoke outdoors on school grounds. Daily smoking was not associated with policies targeting student smoking or those targeting indoor smoking by staff. In multilevel analyses, girls aged 13 years were almost 5 times more likely to be daily smokers if they attended schools at which staff were permitted to smoke outdoors.Conclusions 
    Younger girls may be more susceptible to social influences at school related to tobacco use. School policies banning smoking by teachers and other school personnel within and outside the school should be an important component of comprehensive adolescent smoking prevention programs.
SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.161.9.842
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.161.9.842
ER  -