[Smoking cessation with the help of community pharmacists].

Aim: To investigate the outcome of a protocol for smoking cessation used in the practice of the community pharmacies.

Design: Observational descriptive study of a non pharmacological intervention, without parallel control.

Setting And Participants: Urban community pharmacies in the province of Trieste (n=60).

[Exposure to passive smoking in local health units of northern Italy before and after the enforcement of the smoking ban].

Objective: to assess smoking habits, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and smoking attitudes of workers toward different possible institutional restrictions before and after the implementation of the new Italian legislation about the public health protection from passive smoking (L 3/2003).

Design: Descriptive study based on self-reported questionnaires (2004 and 2005) and indoor measurement of particulate matter (PM, 2004 and 2006).

Setting: Local health authority n.

[Changes in PM10 and PM2.5 air levels in bars after the enforcement of the smoking ban in the Italian legislation].

Objective: in Italy law n.3/2003 has banned smoking in closed places, with the exception of private venues and of public venues reserved for smokers and marked as such. The present report estimates the effects of the ban.