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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2015 Jun;19(6):1376–1383. doi: 10.1007/s10995-014-1642-5

Table 2.

Sources of secondhand smoke exposure and policies during pregnancy by women's smoking status

Indicatora Total
Nonsmokerb
Smokerb
P valuec
N % (95 % CI) N % N %
Smoke-free home rule
    Yes 2,236 65.6 (61.5–69.8) 1,667 73.0 485 48.2 <.0001
    No 1,170 34.4 (30.2–38.5) 617 27.0 501 50.8
Partner smokes
    Yes 1,407 43.4 (41.1–45.8) 743 34.1 589 63.5 <.0001
    No 1,832 56.6 (54.2–58.9) 1,438 65.9 338 36.5
Number of smokers in householdd
    None 1,634 47.7 (44.2–51.2) 1,288 56.2 293 29.6 <.0001
    1 1,188 38.9 (36.1–11.7) 755 32.9 514 51.9
    2 299 8.7 (7.5–10.0) 169 7.4 113 11.4
    3+ 161 4.5 (3.8–5.6) 80 3.5 71 7.2
Smoke-free workplace policye
    Yes 327 61.9 (57.4–66.4) 240 64.3 87 56.1 0.1858
    No 201 38.1 (33.6–42.6) 133 35.7 68 43.9
Exposure to smoke at work in the last 30 dayse
    Yes 105 21.6 (16.9–26.2) 67 19.5 38 26.4 0.0343
    No 382 78.4 (73.8–83.1) 276 80.5 106 73.6
How often around smokers (home, work, public places)
    Never 788 23.7 (16.9–30.5) 627 28.2 142 14.7 0.0001
    Rarely 903 27.2 (21.0–33.3) 710 31.9 153 15.9
    Sometimes 1,102 33.1 (30.4–35.9) 655 29.4 385 40.0
    Always 534 16.1 (13.6–18.5) 235 10.6 283 29.4

CI confidence interval

a

Sample size varied by each item due to missing values, ranging from 0.6 % (smoke-free home rule) to 5.5 % (partner smokes)

b

Smoking status was missing for 144 women (4.2 %)

c

Chi square tests were used to assess differences between nonsmokers and smokers

d

Excludes the pregnant smoker

e

Exposure to smoke at work was calculated only among women who reported working outside of the house (n = 528)