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KMID : 0858820050220020077
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2005 Volume.22 No. 2 p.77 ~ p.95
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Predictors of Local Legislators’ Support for Tobacco Control Policies in Seoul Metropolitan City
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Lee Weon-Young
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study measured the extent of local legislators’’ support for tobacco control policies and identified the predictors of that.
Methods: Local legislators, from 21 Gu in Seoul Metropolitan City, underwent a self-administrated questionaire during the 6-week period from December 1, 2004 to January 15, 2005. Multiple linear regression model was used to assess relationships between five groups of variables(political factors including political ideology, personal characteristics, tobacco experiences, tobacco knowledge, contact with local health officers) and support for tobacco control policies based on an 11-item scale.
Results: The rates of support for ’’penalizing merchants who sell cigarettes to minors’’ and ’’instituting a law mandating that parents should not smoke in a car when children are present’’ were highest as 87.5% and 82.0% respectively, and those for ’’increasing price of cigarettes’’ and ’’regulating stores that sell cigarettes’’ were lowest as 52.2% and 51.7% respectively. Support was higher among local legislators who thought government had a duty to promote healthy life styles, knew second-hand smoke could cause lung cancer, knew tobacco caused more deaths than alcohol. Support among ex-smokers and nonsmokers was higher than current smokers.
Conclusions: The findings indicate that local legislators who oppose tobacco control measures may not be opposed to tobacco control per se, but are more generally opposed to a government role in health promotion, Thus, Tobacco control advocates need to be more attentive to the way tobacco control issues are framed for particular legislators. Further, they could work to increase tobacco knowledge among local legislators.
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KEYWORD
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Local Legislators, Tobacco Control, Support
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