Smoking Bans and Health: Effects of Exposure on the Job

描述：虽然很少有人会质疑吸烟对健康有负面影响，但关于环境烟草烟雾（ETS）或二手烟对健康的影响却没有达成共识。虽然有大量关于工作场所禁烟的研究，但许多研究都存在可能的选择偏见。这项研究的目的是检验由州或地方当局实施的工作场所禁烟令——而不是由个别公司——是否成功地减少了吸烟和接触碳排放化合物。本研究还旨在检查工作场所禁烟是否通过减少吸烟和暴露于ETS来改善婴儿和成人的健康结果，包括死亡率。要实现这些目标，在一定程度上要对实施禁烟令前后食品服务行业工人和其他工人的健康状况进行比较。这项研究将食品服务工作者和其他工作者进行了对比，因为在没有禁烟令的情况下，酒吧和餐馆的工作人员面临着顾客的高排放排放率。虽然禁烟令可能对食品服务和其他工作人员自身的吸烟率产生类似的影响，但酒吧和餐馆的工作人员在禁烟令实施后，与其他工作人员相比，其碳排放排放应会出现相对较大的外源性下降。利用来自《当前人口调查烟草使用补充资料》、《加州烟草调查》、出生证明数据和死亡证明数据的若干来源的数据来审查禁止在公共场所（包括私人工作场所）吸烟的各种立法的影响。这项研究的重点是加州和德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的禁烟令，但也利用具有全国代表性的数据研究了全州禁烟令的影响。

DESCRIPTION: While few would dispute that smoking has a negative impact on health, there is less of a consensus about the health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or second-hand smoke. While there are a host of studies of workplace bans on smoking, many suffer from possible selection bias. This research aims to examine whether workplace smoking bans implemented by state or local authorities- instead of by individual firms--are successful in reducing smoking and exposure to ETS. This research also aims to examine whether workplace smoking bans improve infant and adult health outcomes, including mortality, by reducing smoking and exposure to ETS. These goals are to be accomplished by, in part, a comparison of health outcomes for workers in the food services industry and other workers, before and after implementation of smoking bans. This research contrasts food services workers and other workers because workers at bars and restaurants face high rates of ETS from patrons in the absence of smoking bans. While smoking bans may influence own rates of smoking similarly for food services and other workers, workers at bars and restaurants should experience a relatively large, exogenous decrease in ETS compared with other workers following implementation of a smoking ban. Data from the Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplements, the California Tobacco Surveys, several sources of birth certificate data, and death certificate data are utilized to examine the effect of various legislation banning smoking in public places, including private workplaces. The study focuses on smoking bans in California and in El Paso, Texas, but also examines the impact of statewide bans using nationally representative data.