Complete Workplace Indoor Smoking Ban and Smoking Behavior among Male Workers and Female Nonsmoking Workers’ Husbands: A Pseudo Cohort Study of Japanese Public Workers

Table 1

Subjects number among public office workers according to smoking ban categories.

Smoking ban categories	Men				Married nonsmoking women
	2001		2010		2001		2010
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Total subjects
Partial smoking ban	3785	37.3	2644	38.7	472	32.6	775	38.9
Early smoking ban (2003–2007)	4001	39.5	2576	37.7	651	44.9	733	36.8
Recent smoking ban (2008–2011)	2357	23.2	1620	23.7	326	22.5	486	24.4
Subjects aged 25–39 years^a
Partial smoking ban	1896	38.0	1412	38.8	177	31.1	442	42.0
Early smoking ban (2003–2007)	1952	39.2	1373	37.7	265	46.5	351	33.3
Recent smoking ban (2008–2011)	1137	22.8	855	23.5	128	22.5	260	24.7
Subjects aged 40–50 years^a
Partial smoking ban	1889	36.6	1232	38.5	295	33.6	333	35.4
Early smoking ban (2003–2007)	2049	39.7	1203	37.6	386	43.9	382	40.6
Recent smoking ban (2008–2011)	1220	23.7	765	23.9	198	22.5	226	24.0

aCategorized by age in June 2001.
Notes: Subjects number in other framework such as 2004 and 2007 was similar with this distribution (data not shown).