The association between home smoking restrictions and youth smoking behaviour: a review.

Objective: To review the available evidence for home smoking restrictions as a useful tool in the prevention of youth smoking and to make recommendations for further research.

Methods: A PubMed search (1 January 1990 to 26 January 2010) identified studies involving youth ≤18 years using extensive criteria. In all, 17 studies relating home smoking restrictions to youth smoking behaviour were identified from titles, abstracts or the full text, as required.

The effect of smoke-free homes on adult smoking behavior: a review.

Introduction: Smoke-free homes are known to reduce exposure to harmful secondhand smoke. Recent studies suggest that they may also positively affect smoking behavior among smokers themselves.

Methods: We review the literature on the effect of smoke-free homes on adult smoking behavior.

Young adult smoking behavior: implications for future population health.

Objective: To qualitatively project the future health burden of tobacco from present-day young adult smoking behavior.

Methods: Population surveys in California (2002) and nationally (1978-80, 2001-03).

Results: In 2002, 40% of California young adult smokers were nondaily smokers, 24% had quit at some time for >or=6 months, 45% said they smoked less now than previously, and 68% thought they would quit within 5 years.

Receptivity to tobacco advertising and promotions among young adolescents as a predictor of established smoking in young adulthood.

Objectives: We investigated whether receptivity to tobacco advertising and promotions during young adolescence predicts young adult smoking 6 years later.

Methods: Two longitudinal cohorts of adolescents drawn from the 1993 and 1996 versions of the California Tobacco Surveys were followed 3 and 6 years later. At baseline, adolescents were aged 12 to 15 years and were not established smokers.

The California Tobacco Control Program's effect on adult smokers: (3) Similar effects for African Americans across states.

Objective: To compare trends in African-American (AA) and non-Hispanic white (NHW) smoking between states categorised as having three different levels of tobacco control practice in the 1990s.

Setting And Participants: Analysis of 1992-3 to 2001-2 Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey for differences in adult (20-64 years) daily smoking prevalence for AAs and NHWs across states: California (CA; high cigarette price/comprehensive programme), New York (NY) and New Jersey (NJ; high cigarette price/no comprehensive programme), and tobacco growing states (TGS; low cigarette price/no comprehensive programme).

Results: From 1992-3 to 2001-2, there were large declines in AA smoking across states (2.