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