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Smoke-free public places: implications for stop smoking services
Andrew Hyland
Abstract
Ireland became the first country to adopt a comprehensive nationwide smokefree law. Scotland followed suit in March 2006 and the rest of the UK is scheduled to implement similar legislation in the near future.
The primary result from these policies is that secondhand smoke exposure among workers will significantly decrease; however, the new policy may encourage some smokers to try to stop smoking. The impact of smokefree legislation on smoking cessation indicators and the demand for cessation services will be reviewed in case studies in this presentation. Furthermore, results from a multi-wave cohort survey of smokers in Ireland, Scotland, and the rest of the UK will be presented including pre/post Irish smokefree law data and pre-smokefree law baseline data in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Following this presentation, the audience should have a better understanding of the following questions: 1) Do smokefree laws reduce secondhand smoke exposure?; 2) Do smokefree laws encourage quit attempts?; 3) Do smokefree laws increase the demand for assisted cessation services such as pharmacotherapy or counseling?
Biography
Andrew Hyland, PhD is an Associate Member in the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dr. Hyland holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a MA in Statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Hyland's primary research interests lie in evaluating the impact of policies aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with the use of tobacco products. Examples of his work include an evaluation of the economic impact of clean indoor air laws, creating a system to monitor new tobacco products as they become available to the public, monitoring trends in cancer rates and cancer risk factors in the population using geographical methods, and assessing the impact of a variety of tobacco policy measures on cessation and mortality in a large cohort of smokers. His recent work has involved facilitating comprehensive evaluations of national and sub-national clean air regulations.
Andrew Hyland
Associate Member
Department of Health Behavior
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo
New York, USA
14263
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