A conceptual framework for the roles of legislation and education in reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

More and more legislation regulating smoking in public places is being enacted. A conceptual model is proposed incorporating a large number of factors that may affect smokers' compliance with resulting restrictions. The model stems from findings in our own research and from a consideration of the literature.

The effects of counseling on smoking cessation among patients hospitalized with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized clinical trial.

Seventy-four cigarette-smoking patients admitted with COPD to the Chest Unit of a 600-bed teaching hospital served as subjects for a randomized trial of smoking cessation counseling. All patients were advised to quit smoking and smoking in the unit was not allowed. One-half of the patients were, in addition, provided with a self-help manual and three to eight 15- to 20-min counseling sessions on alternate days while in hospital.

Self-reported long-term smoking cessation in patients with respiratory disease: prediction of success and perception of health effects.

Smoking status of 372 patients with respiratory disease, who had been advised to quit smoking by a respiratory specialist, was assessed six months after the advice. A multiple logistic regression model was developed for prediction of successful abstinence. The patients were again followed four to seven years later.

The role of health beliefs in compliance with physician advice to quit smoking.

The Health Belief Model has been proposed to account for patient compliance with therapeutic regimens. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the utility of this theoretical formulation in accounting for compliance with physician advice to quit smoking among patients with pulmonary disease. Three hypotheses were examined: (1) probability of cessation of smoking is positively related to strength of Health Beliefs; (2) Health Beliefs can be used to explain relationships observed between other variables and compliance; (3) reason for smoking accounts for discrepancies between Health Beliefs and compliance.

Sexual and socioeconomic factors affecting the risk of past infections with herpes simplex virus type 2.

Between November 1978 and May 1980, a cross-sectional survey of 566 females and 391 males, aged 35 to 50 years, living in metropolitan Toronto, was conducted to examine the influence of socioeconomic status and sexual behavior on the occurrence of antibodies to herpes simplex virus type 2. Antibodies to the virus were detected in 17.5% of females and 12.