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Smoking in Public Places
A Consultation on Reducing Exposure to Second Hand Smoke
Evidence Report
Footnotes
1 Reports of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health, 1998 and 2004. Department of Health. These reports provide evidence on the health effects of second hand smoke. In addition to what is reported here, they also highlight the strong link between exposure to second hand smoke and adverse health effects in children
2 In the reports referred to in this report, authors use the terms ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and coronary heart disease (CHD). Both terms are used in this report reflecting their use by respective authors.
3 Reducing Tobacco Related Harm: A Key to Transforming Scotland's Health. 2003:3 NHS Health Scotland/ASH.
4 Scottish Household Survey 2003. Scottish Executive Development Department.
5 Implementation of Directive 98/43/EC (Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship). Draft Regulatory Impact Assessment (Consultation Document). 1998. Department of Health.
6 The cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions: What do we know? 1997. Buck, D. International Journal of Health Education 35:44-52.
7 Reports of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health. 1998 and 2004. Department of Health.
8 Improving Health for Scotland: the Challenge. 2003. The Scottish Executive.
9 A Breath of Fresh Air for Scotland: Improving Scotland's Health: The Challenge: Tobacco Control Action Plan, 2004. Scottish Executive.
10 Reducing Smoking and Tobacco Related Harm: A key to Transforming Scotland's Health. 2003. NHS Health Scotland/ASH.
11 A Breath of Fresh Air for Scotland: Improving Scotland's Health: The Challenge: Tobacco Control Action Plan. 2004. Scottish Executive.
12 Reducing Smoking and Tobacco Related Harm: A Key to Transforming Scotland's Health. 2003 NHS Health Scotland; Smoking in Public Places: A Consultation on Reducing Exposure to Second Hand Smoke. 2004 Scottish Executive.
13 Op.cit.: 10.
14 Public places are defined as any enclosed or semi-enclosed area that members of the public have access to that provides a business or service. It includes workplaces, buildings and transport.
15 Health Economics Research Unit
16 Health Economics Research Unit
17 Department of Public Health
18 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are those with fewer than 250 employees. Larger organisations are those with more than 250 employees.
19 Within each sample point each interviewer is given a random address point to start interviewing. This is where the first interview would be attempted by each interviewer. Thereafter interviewers followed a set of rules to locate other addresses. The interviewer requests an interview at every 5th address in the street, alternatively turning left and right into other streets where they are encountered.
20 Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
21 For further details please refer to the summary of the international review in chapter two of this report, or to the full version of the report, The International Review of the Health and Economic Impact of the Regulation of Smoking in Public Places. 2004. Ludbrook, A, Bird, S and Van Teijlingen, E. which is published on the Scottish Executive website.
22 See papers by Thomas Frieden and John Douglas.
23 The details of the five point plan are outlined in chapter three of this report.
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