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Smoking Bans Cut Smoking Rates, Canadian Study Finds
August 23, 2007

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Research Summary

Canadian researchers say that smokers who face smoking bans at home or at work are significantly more likely to quit than those who face no restrictions, UPI reported Aug. 21.

Statistics Canada researchers analyzed data from the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey and the National Population Health Survey and found that 20 percent of smokers living in homes that became "smoke-free" had quit two years later, compared to 13 percent of smokers who lived in homes where smoking was permitted.

Also, 27 percent of smokers who were barred from smoking at work had quit, compared to 13 percent of those who did not work in smoke-free workplaces.

The study was published in the journal Health Reports.

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