. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 2.

Published in final edited form as: Eur Respir J. 2009 Nov 19;35(5):969–979. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00066809

Table 3.

Percent of subjects who reported having a smoking ban at home^#

	France (N=993)		Ireland (N=994)		Italy (N=995)		Czech Republic (N=998)		Sweden (N=997)		All (N=4977)

	%	p	%	p	%	p	%	p	%	p	%	p
Age in years	0.6		0.1		0.0003		0.5		<0.0001		<0.0001
18–24	55.0		61.1		55.3		73.1		92.0		67.4
25–34	64.3		69.3		67.7		79.1		90.2		73.5
35–44	60.7		67.0		72.3		74.7		94.3		73.6
45–54	59.0		62.5		58.3		73.9		89.4		69.0
+ 55	58.1		58.4		55.0		72.2		80.3		65.2
Marital status	0.02		0.0008		0.02		0.4		<0.0001		<0.0001
Married	63.6		71.1		65.9		76.2		91.1		72.2
Divorced/Separated	57.2		61.6		50.5		76.2		82.5		67.8
Widowed	74.2		63.3		56.4		72.7		79.0		68.0
Single, never married	48.4		55.1		57.4		70.0		80.4		61.9
Living with a partner	57.5		60.9		61.3		82.8		91.8		75.5
Age at completion of education	0.7		0.0003		0.4		0.005		0.4		0.0001
<=19 years	58.3		59.1		61.5		71.6		85.8		67.1
20–25 years	60.8		72.9		59.1		75.1		89.4		70.0
26+ years	58.3		66.0		66.1		87.1		86.9		75.6
Job category (ISCO-88)	0.09		0.06		0.2		0.07		0.3		0.003
Professionals (ISCO 1, 2)	66.4		68.7		58.7		74.6		85.5		71.2
Technical positions (ISCO 3)	44.0		68.9		63.3		73.3		89.5		72.6
Skilled workers (ISCO 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10)	55.2		56.8		63.1		75.2		86.8		70.0
Unskilled workers (ISCO 9)	62.1		70.7		76.7		58.7		82.2		65.2
Homemaker	60.2		62.6		62.2		71.8		100.0		63.9
Full-time student	60.1		61.4		46.7		82.2		90.3		71.3
City size	0.8		0.6		0.2		0.4		0.02		<0.0001
<5000	60.5		61.2		66.1		75.5		89.3		72.2
5000 – 100000	60.2		65.1		63.4		75.9		88.6		70.8
100000+	58.4		63.8		58.8		71.7		82.6		65.7
Smoking status	<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001
Smokes every day or almost	28.5		32.7		35.5		47.2		70.4		42.1
Smokes some days	44.8		73.0		67.2		69.9		84.8		69.9
Former smoker	57.2		61.7		63.3		66.4		89.5		69.0
Never smoker	69.7		73.4		66.9		82.4		90.5		76.5
Time to first cigarette in the morning^¶	<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001
<5 minutes	18.8		33.4		16.7		31.8		73.6		36.8
6–30 minutes	20.3		17.0		38.1		48.3		73.6		40.2
31–60 minutes	21.4		44.9		34.4		41.6		79.4		46.1
Over 60 minutes	44.4		62.3		49.5		61.7		70.7		57.4
Cigarettes per day⁺	0.003		<0.0001		0.03		0.02		0.9		<0.0001
1–10	36.8		60.1		49.8		63.0		78.3		58.2
11–20	26.8		31.7		29.2		34.5		68.2		36.9
21+	0.0		18.9		11.2		30.4		17.1		14.6
One or both parents smoked	0.0003		<0.0001		<0.0001		0.0008		0.1		<0.0001
No	66.2		74.5		69.0		78.9		89.0		75.8
Yes	54.8		57.3		55.5		69.7		85.5		64.1
Family history of lung cancer	0.1		0.7		0.5		0.3		0.3		0.3
No	55.0		62.3		63.5		77.3		84.3		67.8
Yes	61.0		63.8		60.8		73.5		87.6		69.5
Perceived risk of lung cancer	0.001		<0.0001		0.02		0.008		0.007		<0.0001
Low	67.0		69.9		67.0		77.9		89.8		75.5
Medium	56.8		56.5		55.7		73.1		84.6		64.0
High	50.3		50.2		59.6		55.9		79.6		59.9
Don't know	56.7		60.5		59.9		74.8		84.1		67.0
The medical evidence that smoking is harmful is exaggerated.	0.0001		<0.0001		0.001		<0.0001		0.04		<0.0001
Disagree or strongly disagree	63.3		68.1		64.3		76.9		88.0		72.5
Agree or strongly agree	49.9		44.6		50.5		60.2		82.4		56.8
Exposure to secondhand smoke is dangerous to a pregnant woman and her child.	0.05		0.0004		0.02		0.03		0.03		<0.0001
Disagree or strongly disagree	36.6		37.5		22.1		45.2		70.3		42.8
Agree or strongly agree	60.1		65.4		62.0		75.0		87.8		70.1
Are you bothered by secondhand smoke?	<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001		<0.0001
No	42.9		42.9		34.3		50.0		77.0		50.1
Yes	68.2		73.8		69.4		82.1		91.6		77.0

All percents are weighted. Smoking bans at home were defined as having a complete ban, with no persons allowed to smoke. P-values by chi-square or ANOVA.

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Asked of current smokers only (n=1414).