Adoption of Tobacco- and Smoke-Free Policies in a US National Sample of Postsecondary Educational Institutions

To examine the institutional characteristics associated with the adoption of tobacco- and smoke-free policies among US postsecondary educational institutions. In 2017, we collected information on tobacco policy types and institutional characteristics of a national sample of US postsecondary educatio...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2018-10, Vol.108 (10), p.1366-1369
Main Authors: Trad, Catherine, Bayly, Jennifer, Saint-Fort, Launick, Andrews, Mary, Patel, Minal, Sabado-Liwag, Melanie, Haynie, Denise, Simons-Morton, Bruce, Choi, Kelvin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent Health
AJPH Open-Themed Research
Censuses
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Education
Epidemiology
Health care policy
Health Policy
Humans
Institutions
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority groups
Minority students
No-smoking policies
Organizational Policy
Prevention
Proprietary
Public health
Public health education
Regression analysis
Smoke
Smoke-Free Policy
Smoking
Teaching methods
Tobacco
Tobacco and Health
Tobacco Control
Tobacco smoke
United States
Universities
Young adults
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Summary:To examine the institutional characteristics associated with the adoption of tobacco- and smoke-free policies among US postsecondary educational institutions. In 2017, we collected information on tobacco policy types and institutional characteristics of a national sample of US postsecondary educational institutions (n = 605) attended by the participants of the NEXT Generation Health Study. We used logistic regression to examine the relationships between these variables. Overall, 35.2% of these institutions adopted tobacco-free policies (i.e., prohibit all tobacco product use on campus), 10.1% had smoke-free policies (i.e., prohibit smoking but not other tobacco product use on campus), and 53.7% did not have tobacco- or smoke-free policies. Proprietary (privately owned, for-profit) institutions (vs public institutions) were the least likely to have tobacco- or smoke-free policies (P 
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/ajph.2018.304568