Table 4 Factors associated with agreement with statements regarding smoke-free policy, multivariate logistic regression
From: A smoke-free medical campus in Jerusalem: data for action
Percentage of agreement (%) | OR (95 % CI) | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smoking on campus should only be permitted in designated smoking areas | Smoking status | Current | 73.1 | 1.0 | a < 0.01 |
Past | 82.4 | 2.2 (0.6–7.3) | |||
Never | 98.7 | 39.4 (8.8–176.7) | |||
Awareness of the smoke-free campus policy | Unaware/uncertain | 90.9 | 1.0 | <0.01 | |
Aware | 97.2 | 5.3 (1.6–17.9) | |||
All campus buildings should be smoke-free | Smoking status | Current | 84.6 | 1.0 | |
Past | 84.3 | 0.8 (0.2–3.0) | a<0.01 | ||
Never | 97.4 | 7.0 (1.8–27.5) | |||
Smelling cigarette smoke | Did not smell | 90.8 | 1.0 | <0.01 | |
Smelled | 97.0 | 4.2 (1.4–12.8) | |||
The smoking policy ban is unfair to smokers | Smoking status | Never | 14.5 | 1.0 | b0.02 |
Current | 30.8 | 2.4 (0.7–7.6) | |||
Past | 29.4 | 3.4 (1.4–8.5) | |||
Track | Pharmacy | 30.9 | 1.0 | <0.01 | |
Medicine | 13.0 | 0.3 (0.2–0.7) | |||
Dentistry | 11.6 | 0.3 (0.1–0.8) | |||
All campus areas should be smoke-free | Smoking status | Current | 7.7 | 1.0 | 0.02 |
Past | 25.5 | 3.1 (0.6–15.5) | |||
Never | 47.8 | 9.5 (2.2–31.5) | |||
Observing smokers in open area | Didn’t observe | 34.3 | 1.0 | <0.01 | |
Observed | 55.1 | 2.1 (1.2–3.6) | |||
Smoking should be restricted to the campus gates, up to a distance of 10 m | Smoking status | Current | 11.5 | 1.0 | a < 0.01 |
Past | 31.4 | 2.9 (0.8–11.3) | |||
Never | 47.8 | 6.8 (2.0–23.5) | |||
Family status | Unmarried | 38.1 | 1.0 | <0.01 | |
Married | 53.0 | 2.0 (1.2–3.4) | |||