Voluntary home smoking ban in Italy
The study Voluntary home smoking ban: prevalence, trend and determinants in Italy, recently conducted by TackSHS Partners in Italy IRFMN and ISPO, aimed to investigate the trends of voluntary smoking bans in homes. Analysis of five national surveys showed that about 61% of Italians adopted complete smoking bans in their homes. More than two out of three Italian non-smokers and one out of three current smokers have smoke-free homes. The number of smoke-free homes is substantially increasing in Italy, and an acceleration of this trend is expected with the 2016 implementation of a new tobacco control legislation aimed at decreasing the social acceptability of smoking. The full-text article is available here.