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Defining residential tobacco home policies: a behavioural and cultural perspective
Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health, San Diego State University, California, USA
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Dr M Hovell
Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health, San Diego State University, California, USA; mhovell@projects.sdsu.edu
Commentary on the paper by Spencer et al (see page670)
Keywords: behavioural ecological model; home bans; home policies; passive smoke exposure; tobacco control
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Passive smoke exposure (PSE) is carcinogenic, linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, increased risk for sudden infant death, and increased severity of asthma, and is generally harmful.1,2
According to the behavioural ecological model (BEM), smoking and passive smoke exposure are behaviours influenced by interacting physiological, environmental, and cultural contingencies.3 Social models, criticism, and praise serve as powerful reinforcing contingencies of lifestyle practices. These interact prominently with physiological and community based contingencies. For instance, once an individual is prompted by the industry to start smoking, nicotine addiction adds physiological consequences for smoking (for example, increased alertness) and for not smoking (for example, increased anxiety). These interact with social contingencies promoted by the industry, media, and social reinforcement from members of personal networks to strengthen the addiction. The strength of the addiction is dependent on the biological addiction to nicotine and the density of reinforcement from social networks. Fortunately, other social
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