Smoke bans clean up in the home

Published on Tuesday 14 February 2012 00:00

Banning smoking in public places also leads to a reduction in the amount people smoke at home, new research suggests.

People are likely to implement their own “home bans” on lighting up once new laws come into force.

Writing online in the journal Tobacco Control, researchers carried out surveys between 2003-4 and 2008-9.

The polls involved 4,634 smokers in Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Before a ban came into force, most smokers had at least partial restrictions on smoking at home, with young children and support for a smoking ban important factors.

But after new laws came into force, there was a rise in all countries in the proportion of people banning smoking at home – up 25 per cent in Ireland, 17 per cent in France, 38 per cent in Germany and 28 per cent in the Netherlands.

“Opponents of smoking bans argued they could lead to displacement of smoking into the home,” the experts said.

In fact, they “may stimulate smokers to establish total smoking bans in their homes”.

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SlowNeutron

Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:24 PM

dear 2 and 3 ------ Let's leave aside all the health arguments that you're going to ignore anyway. Here's the thing.....I just don't want to smell as bad as a smoker does (ooooh yes you do...) and I don't want my kids to smell that bad either. ---- smoking in public indoors is simply thoughtless and rude, like letting off some kind of stink bomb. ----- Oh and by the way, the Nazis had a bad habit of gassing folk they didn't like, frightfully ironic you should refer to the ANTI-smoking lobby that way, mr fuel-head, nicht?

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Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 03:03 PM

Seeing as passive smoking does not exist, I fail to so why anyone gets up-tight about smoking in front of kids. Like Charles says any poll carried out by the anti-smoking nazis is obviously going to reflect and even reinforce their twisted, bigoted views on life.

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Charles11

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 10:32 AM

Poll carried out by Tobacco Control. Say no more. Smokers love to smoke in the wet and the cold.

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Hector the Lessor

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 07:51 AM

You are actually quite correct. When I visit my grandchildren I do not smoke in front of them and in fact move outside if I want a ciggie. When they visit me, I put a table and chairs on the front lawn and invite them inside until I fancy a ciggie when I move them outside.. It may appear to be an unusual arrangement but seems to work fine. I could add that three of my elder grandchildren do visit me at home and enjoy a smoke in my company, however I feel that I have done my bit and do not really want to know what they smoke.

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