Hua Hie YongKin FoongRon BorlandMaizurah OmarStephen HamannBuppha SirirassameeGeoffrey T. FongOmid FotuhiAndrew HylandCancer Council VictoriaUniversiti Sains MalaysiaThai Health Promotion Foundation, BangkokMahidol UniversityUniversity of WaterlooOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchRoswell Park Cancer Institute2018-09-242018-09-242010-01-01Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. Vol.22, No.1 (2010), 98-109101053952-s2.0-75649113822https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/29881This 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.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1177/1010539509351303