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Effects of smoke-free government policy in Qingdao, China: Evidence from the path analysis

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  • Nan Jiang
  • Rui Wang
  • Haiping Duan
  • Zhenhua Ma
  • Lingling Huo
  • Xiaorong Jia
  • Xiaocen Jia
  • Fei Qi
  • Shanpeng Li

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Smoke-free government(SFG), as a key tobacco control measure, has been added in Healthy China 2030 blueprint and Qingdao started the establishment of the demonstrative SFG in 2020.This study examined the effects of SFG policy on smoking and smoke-free(SF) environment after establishing the demonstrative SFG. This cross-sectional survey selected participants by simple random sampling from party and government agencies in Qingdao (N = 3625) and the participants filled in questionnaires online from November 31 to December 15, 2020. We utilized AMOS to set up models to analyze the direct and indirect effects of SFG policy. The findings showed that knowledge of SFG policy was positively associated with SF environment(β = 0.29, P

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  • Nan Jiang & Rui Wang & Haiping Duan & Zhenhua Ma & Lingling Huo & Xiaorong Jia & Xiaocen Jia & Fei Qi & Shanpeng Li, 2023. "Effects of smoke-free government policy in Qingdao, China: Evidence from the path analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(8), pages 1-16, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0289658
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289658
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