Abstract
Despite considerable recent progress in tobacco control, smoking and second-hand smoke exposure continue to pose a major health threat to adults, children, and (unborn) babies. There is increasing evidence that implementation of smoke-free legislation, through reducing smoking and smoke exposure, has the potential to improve population health. In this editorial we focus on the research on smoke-free legislation in relation to stillbirths, summarizing the findings to-date, reflecting on methodological issues that need to be considered when interpreting this evidence base, and highlighting some key next steps to further strengthen the evidence in order to inform evidence-based policy making.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 109-112 |
Journal | Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Smoking
- tobacco
- pregnancy
- second-hand smoke
- policy
- prevention
- fetus
- quasi-experiment
- perinatal mortality
- methodology