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JAMA. 2007;298:169-170.

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MMWR. 2007;56:501-504

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Secondhand smoke (SHS) causes premature death and disease in children and nonsmoking adults.¹ The home is the primary source of exposure to SHS for infants and children and a major source of SHS exposure for nonsmoking adults.¹ To assess trends in national and state-specific prevalence of home "no smoking" rules (i.e., smoke-free home rules), CDC analyzed data from the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey for 1992-1993, 1998-1999, and 2003. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that the national prevalence of households with smoke-free home rules in the United States increased significantly, from 43.2% during 1992-1993 to 72.2% in 2003. During this period, the national prevalence of such rules increased from 9.6% to 31.8% among households with at least one smoker and from 56.8% to 83.5% among households with no smoker. A regression analysis of the rate of change . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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