Table 2 Themes and categories identified from interviews with the bar owners by hierarchy of contingencies
Themes | Financial and social reinforcements for punishments for adopting the ban | Situations enhancing or prohibiting adopting the ban |
|---|---|---|
Level of Hierarchy | Category | Category |
1. Society level | 1. The social perceptions of “having fun” in the bar. | 1. Banning smoking as a result of social criticism. |
2. Reactions to social movements trying to enforce the law. | ||
3. The disobedient Israeli customer. | ||
2. Community level | 1. Frequency of receiving fines. | 1. Inconsistencies in inspectors’ behavior. |
2. The courts as a non-supportive organization environment. | ||
3. Local level | 1. The bar’s losses and gains in enforcing the ban. | 1. Inconsistencies in adherence to the ban. |
4. Individual level | 2. Problems in the built environment preventing adherence with the ban. | |
1. Patrons’ reactions to smoking in P&B. | ||
2. The bar owner’s role as the enforcer of the ban. |