RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Household smoking and respiratory health in Telemark, Norway – 10 years after the introduction of a smoking ban
JF European Respiratory Journal
JO Eur Respir J
FD European Respiratory Society
SP PA4290
DO 10.1183/13993003.congress-2016.PA4290
VO 48
IS suppl 60
A1 Anne Kristin Moller Fell
A1 Jeong.Lim Kim
A1 Regine Abrahamsen
A1 Martin Veel Svendsen
A1 Kjell Toren
A1 Johny Kongerud
A1 Paul Henneberger
YR 2016
UL http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/suppl_60/PA4290.abstract
AB INTRODUCTION In Norway a smoking ban was introduced in 2004, leading to reduction in respiratory symptoms and increased lung function for the workforce (Skogstad, et al. Occup Environ Med 2006;63:482-7). Data regarding the association between exposure to household smoking and respiratory symptoms are scarce.METHOD We assessed the association between self-reported exposure to household tobacco smoking and prevalence of respiratory symptoms among 16099 subjects from the general population, aged 16 to 50 years, included in the Telemark study (Abrahamsen, et al. BMJ Open 2016 Jan 6;6(1). Logistic regression estimating the odds ratios (OR) of symptoms were preformed among 8850 never-smokers of whom 504 (5.7 %) stated that they live in a home with daily or occasionally indoor smoking .RESULTS DISCUSSION The prevalence of chronic cough, productive cough and woken during the night by chest tightness or dyspnoea was associated with smoking at home also among never-smokers in this study. Among smokers all symptoms apart from nasal symptoms were associated with household smoking (data not shown) indicating confounding by the participants own smoking.CONCLUSION Smoking in private homes was associated with respiratory symptoms also among never-smokers, indicating that further measures are needed to prevent respiratory effects from environmental smoking.