Publication: Support for and reported compliance among smokers with smoke-free policies in air-conditioned hospitality venues in Malaysia and Thailand: Findings from the international tobacco control Southeast Asia survey
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2010-01-01
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10105395
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Mahidol University
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. Vol.22, No.1 (2010), 98-109
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Hua Hie Yong, Kin Foong, Ron Borland, Maizurah Omar, Stephen Hamann, Buppha Sirirassamee, Geoffrey T. Fong, Omid Fotuhi, Andrew Hyland Support for and reported compliance among smokers with smoke-free policies in air-conditioned hospitality venues in Malaysia and Thailand: Findings from the international tobacco control Southeast Asia survey. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. Vol.22, No.1 (2010), 98-109. doi:10.1177/1010539509351303 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/29881
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Support for and reported compliance among smokers with smoke-free policies in air-conditioned hospitality venues in Malaysia and Thailand: Findings from the international tobacco control Southeast Asia survey
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This study examined support for and reported compliance with smoke-free policy in air-conditioned restaurants and other similar places among adult smokers in Malaysia and Thailand. Baseline data (early 2005) from the International Tobacco Control Southeast Asia Survey (ITC-SEA), conducted face-to-face in Malaysia and Thailand (n = 4005), were used. Among those attending venues, reported total smoking bans in indoor air-conditioned places such as restaurants, coffee shops, and karaoke lounges were 40% and 57% in Malaysia and Thailand, respectively. Support for a total ban in air-conditioned venues was high and similar for both countries (82% Malaysian and 90% Thai smokers who believed there was a total ban), but self-reported compliance with bans in such venues was significantly higher in Thailand than in Malaysia (95% vs 51%, P < .001). As expected, reporting a ban in air-conditioned venues was associated with a greater support for a ban in such venues in both countries. © 2010 APJPH.