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• TITLE: Residential smoking restrictions are not associated with reduced child SHS exposure in a baseline sample of low-income, urban African Americans

  AUTHORS: Bradley N. Collins, Jennifer K. Ibrahim, Melbourne Hovell, Natalie M. Tolley, Uma S. Nair, Karen Jaffe, David Zanis, Janet Audrain-McGovern

  KEYWORDS: Home Smoking Policy; Second Hand Smoke; Underserved Populations

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.2 No.11, November 19, 2010

  ABSTRACT: Second hand smoke exposure (SHSe) relates to many chronic and acute illnesses. Low income African American (AA) maternal smokers and their children have disproportionately higher tobacco-use and child SHSe-related morbidity and mortality than other populations. While public health officials promote residential smoking restrictions to reduce SHSe and promote smoking cessation, little is known about the impact of restrictions in changing smoking behavior and SHSe in this population. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine associations between residential smoking restrictions, maternal smoking, and young children’s SHSe in the context of other factors known to influence low income AA mothers’ smoking behavior. For this study, we used cross-sectional, baseline data from 307 AA maternal smokers’ pre-treatment interviews completed as part of a subsequent behavioral counseling trial to reduce their young (