Public support for smoke-free policies in outdoor areas and (semi-) private places: a systematic review and meta-analysis 129 4 Author (year) Geographic location Smoke-free location Support measure Answer options Overall sample size Reported support overall Support transformed, reversed etc. Bartington(2020) Birmingham (UK) University campus We should aspire to make the university free of tobacco smoking Agree (agree, strongly agree); disagree (unsure, disagree, strongly disagree) Students: n = 235 Staff: n = 545 Students: 80.6% (74.4 - 85.9%) Staff: 72.6% (68.3 - 76.6%) 75.0% Berg (2015) Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee (USA) All outdoor areas on college or university campuses For each of the following places, indicate how you feel about a policy prohibiting smoking in that kind of place Oppose (strongly oppose, somewhat oppose); other (neutral, somewhat favour, strongly favour n = 2501 28.3% 71.7% Berg (2016) Republic of Georgia Outdoor areas on college campuses How would you feel about a policy prohibiting smoking in that kind of place? Oppose (somewhat oppose, strongly oppose); other (neutral, somewhat favour, strongly favour) n = 1163 11.4% 88.6% Berg (2020) Massachusetts, USA Two college campuses; one with a smoking ban (SBC) and control campus without a policy (CC) If your college were to enact [such] a campuswide smoking ban (banning smoking from all indoor and outdoor spaces on campus), how would you feel about this policy? 1 (strongly agree/ very positive) to 5 (strongly disagree/ very negative) recoded so higher rates represent more less positive views towards a campus-wide ban Pre-ban: SBC: n = 192 CC: n = 226 Post-ban: SBC: n= 372 CC: n = 268 mean (SD) Pre-ban: SBC: 2.52 (1.50) CC: 2.59 (1.55) Post-ban: SCB: 1.17 (1.08) CC: 2.3 (1.42) Pre-ban: 61.1% Post-ban: 76.1%
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