The Impact of School Tobacco Policies on Student Smoking in Washington State, United States and Victoria, Australia

Tracy J. Evans-Whipp, Lyndal Bond, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, John W. Toumbourou and Richard F. Catalano
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Tracy J. Evans-Whipp: Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
Lyndal Bond: Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK
Obioha C. Ukoumunne: Clinical and Epidemiological Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
John W. Toumbourou: School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong Vic, 3217, Australia
Richard F. Catalano: Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, 9725 3rd Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA

IJERPH, 2010, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: This paper measures tobacco polices in statewide representative samples of secondary and mixed schools in Victoria, Australia and Washington, US (N = 3,466 students from 285 schools) and tests their association with student smoking. Results from confounder-adjusted random effects (multi-level) regression models revealed that the odds of student perception of peer smoking on school grounds are decreased in schools that have strict enforcement of policy (odds ratio (OR) = 0.45; 95% CI: 0.25 to 0.82; p = 0.009). There was no clear evidence in this study that a comprehensive smoking ban, harsh penalties, remedial penalties, harm minimization policy or abstinence policy impact on any of the smoking outcomes.

Keywords: schools; tobacco policy; tobacco smoking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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