Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy

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Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Ontario Tobacco Research Unit November 2012 Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Suggested Citation: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report. Toronto: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Special Report, November 2012. Ontario Tobacco Research Unit ii Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy Evaluation Report Acknowledgements Many people were involved in the preparation of this report. Key authors are Robert Schwartz, Shawn O’Connor, Alexey Babayan, Maritt Kirst, and Jolene Dubray. Marilyn Pope, David Ip, Pamela Kaufman, and Marian Smith provided editorial comments on an earlier draft and Sonja Johnston provided production assistance. The interpretation…show more content…
72 Prevention: Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy............................................................................ 72 Prevention Infrastructure ................................................................................................ 74 Prevention Interventions ................................................................................................ 76 Prevention Outcomes: Population Level .............................................................................. 83 Long-Term Outcomes ..................................................................................................... 83 Short and Intermediate-Term Outcomes .......................................................................... 88 Contributions: Infrastructure/Capacity Building Programs ................................................... 89 Youth Advocacy Training Institute ................................................................................... 89 Play, Live, Be Tobacco-Free Initiative ............................................................................... 90 Contributions: Interventions .............................................................................................. 91 Interventions to Limit Social Exposure, Availability and Access ......................................... 91 Interventions for Building Knowledge and…show more content…
Investment in the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy continues to bear fruit. The Smoke-Free Ontario Act protects most Ontarians most of the time from exposure to secondhand smoke in indoor public places. Smoking bans, social marketing campaigns, restrictions on promotion, youth programs, and widespread availability of cessation supports are changing the social climate of tobacco use and leading to declines in smoking rates among youth. Alongside these positive developments are several trends worth noting:      There has been no significant change in the prevalence of adult smoking in the last five years and the previous five years saw only a 3-percentage point decline. It has taken ten years to achieve a 5-percentage point decline. Smoking rates among low socioeconomic status subpopulations and in several PHUs are not noticeably decreasing. There has been no significant change at the population level in key cessation outcome indicators (intentions to quit, quit attempts, successful quits). The prevalence of overall tobacco use is 22%, unchanged in recent years. The use of alternative forms of tobacco appears to be on the rise. Notably, in 2010 the prevalence of past 30-day cigar use was 19% and 21% for 18 to 19 year old and 20 to 24 year old males,
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