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Bachelor’s Thesis
Degree programme in Nursing
2018
Rowena Batnag and Junu Shrestha
EFFECTS OF PASSIVE
SMOKING ON NON-SMOKERS
– A Literature Review
BACHELOR’S THESIS | ABSTRACT
TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Degree programme in Nursing
2018 | 55 pages, 16 pages in appendices
Rowena Batnag and Junu Shrestha
EFFECTS OF PASSIVE SMOKING ON NON-

SMOKERS
- A Literature Review
Millions of people are exposed to passive smoking each year. Since there is no safe level of
exposure to secondhand smoke, a passive smoker also becomes vulnerable to the danger of
tobacco use. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the effects of passive smoking on non-
smokers as well as the role of nurses in the control of secondhand smoke exposure.
A literature-based approach was utilized to gather relevant research articles from CINAHL
Complete, Pubmed, and Google Scholar. A total of 18 peer-reviewed articles were independently
reviewed and included according to the inclusion and exclusion standards.
The result of the study indicated that secondhand smoke exposure predisposes a passive smoker
to the development of serious respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. A strong association
between passive smoking and lung cancer has been identified. Other disease outcomes were:
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), stroke,
asthma, and tuberculosis.
Nurses can take an active role within the workplace in raising awareness and helping patients to
quit smoking. As nurses we cannot prevent passive smoking but we can help an active smoker
modify the behavior. We can also engage in anti-tobacco legislation within the society. Substantial
health gains can be made by reducing exposure to secondhand smoke and the only effective way
to prevent exposure is to eliminate smoking in all indoors. Smoke-free home and smoke-free
workplace policies are the best way to protect people from exposure to secondhand smoke.
KEYWORDS:
Passive smoking, secondhand smoke, lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory illness,
coronary heart disease
OPINNÄYTETYÖ AMK | TIIVISTELMÄ
TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
Degree Programme in Nursing
2018 | 55 sivua, 16 liitesivua
Rowena Batnag ja Junu Shrestha
PASSIIVISEN TUPAKOINNIN VAIKUTUKSET

TUPAKOIMATTOMIIN
- Kirjallisuuskatsaus
Miljoonat ihmiset altistuvat passiiviselle tupakoinnille vuosittain. Koska passiivisen tupakoinnin

altistumiselle ei ole turvallista tasoa, passiivinen tupakoitsija joutuu myös alttiiksi tupakan käytön
vaaroille. Tämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli tutkia passiivisen tupakoinnin vaikutuksia
tupakoimattomille sekä hoitajien roolia passiivisen tupakoinnin altistumisen hillitsemisessä.
Kirjallisuuteen perustuvaa lähestymistapaa hyödynnettiin keräämällä yhteen aiheeseen liittyviä

tutkimusartikkeleita CINAHL Complete:sta, Pubmedista ja Google Scholarista. Yhteensä 18
vertaisarvioitua artikkelia tarkasteltiin riippumattomasti ja sisällytettiin sisäänotto- ja
poissulkusikriteerien mukaisesti.
Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittivat, että tupakansavulle altistuminen altistaa passiivisen tupakoitsijan

vakaville hengitys- ja sydänsairauksille. Passiivisen tupakoinnin ja keuhkosyövän välillä on
havaittu vahva yhteys. Muita mahdollisia sairauksia ovat: Keuhkoahtaumatauti (COPD),
sepelvaltimotauti (CHD), aivoverenkiertohäiriö, astma ja tuberkuloosi.
Sairaanhoitajat voivat toimia aktiivisesti työpaikalla lisäämällä tietoisuutta ja kannustamalla

potilaita lopettamaan tupakointi. Sairaanhoitaja ei voi estää passiivista tupakointia mutta hän voi
yrittää muuttaa aktiivisten tupakoitsijoiden käyttäytymistä. Voimme myös osallistua aktiivisesti
yhteiskunnassa ottamalla kantaa tupakkalainsäädäntöön. Merkittäviä terveyshyötyjä voidaan
saada vähentämällä altistumista passiiviselle tupakoinnille ja ainoa tehokas tapa estää
altistuminen, on kieltää tupakointi kaikissa sisätiloissa. Linjaukset joilla tehdään kodeista ja
työpaikoista savuttomia ovat paras tapa suojella ihmisiä altistumasta passiiviselle tupakoinnille.
ASIASANAT:
Passiivinen tupakointi, toistuva savu, keuhkosyöpä, sydän- ja verisuonitaudit, hengityselinten

sairaudet, sepelvaltimotauti
CONTENT
1.1 INTRODUCTION 6
2 BACKGROUND 8
2.1 Brief History of Tobacco 8
2.2 Tobacco Advertising 9
2.3 What’s in a Cigarette? 9
2.4 Prevalence of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke 12
3 PURPOSE AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS 16
4 DATA AND METHODS 17

4.1 Review Method 17
4.2 Data Collection 18
4.3 Data Analysis 21
5 RESULTS 22
5.1 Effects of Passive Smoking on Non-smokers 22
5.1.1 Cancer 26
5.1.2 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases 27
5.2 Role of Nurses in the Control of Secondhand Smoke Exposure 28
5.2.1 Theoretical-based approach 28
5.2.2 Clinical and community-based approach 35
6 ETHICS AND VALIDITY 43
7 DISCUSSION 44
8 CONCLUSION 46
9 REFERENCES 47
APPENDIX A 9-1
APPENDIX B 9-12
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ALA American Lung Association (American Lung Association 2018)
CAP Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Almirall ym. 2014)
CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Center for Disease Conrol and
Prevention 2016)
CNA Canada Nurses’ Association (Canada Nurses’ Association 2018)
COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Johannessen ym. 2012)
EPA Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Protection Agency 2018)
ETS Environmental tobacco smoke (World Health Organization 2018)
FTC Federal Trade Commission (Federal Trade Commission 2016)
IHD Ishaemic Heart Disease (Fisher and Kraemer 2015)
SHS Secondhand smoke (World Health Organization 2018)
TBP Theory of Planned Behavior (Joseph ym. 2016)
USDHHS U.S Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. Department of Health
And Human Services 2014)
WHO World Health Organization (World Health Organization 2018)

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1.1 INTRODUCTION
Tobacco smoking remains the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world, killing
more than seven million people each year. More than six million of those deaths are the
result of direct tobacco use while around 890,000 are the result of non-smokers being
exposed to second-hand smoke. (World Health Organization 2018.)
The harmful effects of second-hand smoke have been recorded since 1928 (Öberg 2011).
Passive smoking, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is the exposure to
second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS) which is a mixture of exhaled mainstream smoke and
side stream smoke released from a burning cigarette or other smoking device such as cigar
and pipe. Second-hand tobacco smoke is also referred to as environmental tobacco smoke
(ETS). (WHO 2018.)
There are approximately 600 ingredients in a cigarette and it creates more than 7,000
chemicals when burned. At least 69 of these chemicals are poisonous and are known to
cause cancer. (American Lung Association 2018.) ETS has been classified as a known
human lung carcinogen by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since
1993. Accumulation of epidemiologic evidence has related passive smoking to
cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases as well as respiratory diseases such as
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.(EPA 2018.) ETS has also been the
most widely studied risk factor of lung cancer among non-smokers (Brownson ym. 1998).
The present knowledge about the carcinogenic activity of secondhand smoke, the lack of
any evidence to identify a minimum threshold for tobacco smoke inducing lung cancer and
the increase in the risk of lung cancer with increased amount smoked suggest that an
association between passive smoking and lung cancer is biologically possible (Taylor ym.
2007).
International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, the Californian Environmental

Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
recognise that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke and therefore recommend
effective measures to provide protection from secondhand smoke exposure (Öberg ym.
2011).
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Over the years, more and more scientists began to understand the chemical compositions
of tobacco as well as the dangerous health effects tobacoo smoking produces but it was
only in 1964, when the U.S Surgeon General (1986) finally published a landmark report on
the health consequences of tobacco smoking had the danger of smoking been realized. And
in 1986, Surgeon General released another report entitled “The Health Consequences of
Involuntary Smoking”, which focused entirely on ETS. The report covered toxicology of
tobacco smoke, prevalence of exposure of nonsmokers to tobacco smoke as well as the
epidemiologic evidence on involuntary smoking and the burden of disease risks for infants,
children, and adult. (USDHHS 1986.)
Traditionally, tobacco control has not been a part of the nursing practice and research has
shown that tobacco related content in nursing schools is minimal. But nurses are in optimal
position to conduct and participate in clinical and community-based approaches and
strategies to reduce exposure to ETS. The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effects
of passive smoking on non-smokers as well as the role of nurses in the control of second-
hand smoke exposure.
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2 BACKGROUND
2.1 Brief History of Tobacco
Mayans and Aztec civilizations used tobacco for many rituals including pre-battle rituals,
sexual or reproductive rituals and as gifts to the Gods. Priests and medicine men at those
ancient times used tobacco as a medicine for mild ailments such as headache and colds
and for more serious illnesses like delirium, blood poisoning and lupus. (Burns 2007, 4-8.)
South American societies also used tobacco as analgesics and antiseptics. It is derived
from the plant nicotiana tabacum and had been used as an effective insecticide for both
crops and in treatment of lice and other parasites. Tobacco then arrived in Europe in the late
1500s, when Columbus was offered dried tobacco leaves as a gift from the American Indians
he encountered and then he brought those tobacco leaves back home. Tobacco was then
continued to be justified as medicinal by Europeans. (Musk and De Klerk 2003.) However,
in the beginning of the 1600s some individuals realized the danger of smoking and the
addicting effect of nicotine but these incidents did not affect the popularity of cigarettes and
still continued to expand until the early 19th century. By 1800s, tobacco became a way of
life. It became a source of income, a source of recreation and relaxation. (Burns 2007, 79.)
Its economic effects and broad popularity forced acceptance among all cultures. It quickly
spread throughout the civilized world and became a foundation for the growth of the
American economy. The use of cigarettes further exploded during the World War I, where
cigarettes were called the “soldier’s smoke”. Tobacco companies also began targeting
women in advertisements during this period. (Brandt 2007, 51-55.) And on World War II,
cigarette sales were at all-time high, when tobacco companies sent millions of cigarettes to
the soldiers for free as part of their direct advertising strategy. In the 1950s, light cigarettes
were introduced in response to concern about possible health effects of smoking. These
cigarettes were marketed as a healthier option and even as a first step in smoking cessation.
(Kropp and Halpern-Felsher 2004.) Then in 1965, e-cigarettes were introduced as a “safe
and harmless” smokeless non-tobacco cigarettes. And as of today, e-cigarettes are now the
most commonly used tobacco product among youth. (Center for Disease Control and
Prevention 2016, 5-10.)
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2.2 Tobacco Advertising
Tobacco has been marketed aggressively to the public through different channels and
modalities in order to foster demand, create a more permissive environment of smoking and
establish tobacco use as an acceptable social behavior (Lynch and Bonnie 1994). As
reported by Federal Trade Commission (FTC 2016) in their Smokeless Tobacco Report
(2016), tobacco products are one of the most heavily marketed consumer products in the
U.S. In 2014, the largest cigarette manufacturers spent a total of almost 9 billion—or more
than $23 million dollars a day—for the promotion and advertisement of their products. (FTC
2016.)
Research conducted over the past several decades indicates that tobacco industry has
engaged in developing genetically engineered tobacco to enhance nicotine delivery in order
to manipulate cigarette nicotine levels thereby influencing people’s smoking behaviors
(Rabinoff ym. 2007). Nicotine activates the same reward pathways in the brain like other
drugs of abuse such as cocaine or amphetamines thereby making the use of tobacco quickly
addicting (Maritz and Mutemwa 2012.)
2.3 What’s in a Cigarette?
There are approximately 600 ingredients in a cigarette and they create more than 7,000
chemicals when burned. At least 69 of these chemicals are known to be poisonous and
cancerous. These cigarette ingredients include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well
as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and butane. (ALA 2018.)
Sidestream smoke releases five times as much carbon monoxide and twice as much tar into
the air as compared to what enters a smoker’s lungs. Chemists concluded that cigarette
smoke is 10,000 times more concentrated than the automobile pollution at rush hour on a
freeway. (Golden ym. 2009, 131.)
There are actually higher concentrations of many carcinogens in second-hand smoke than
in the smoke actively inhaled into lungs by smokers (USDHHS 2006). Visible smoke
contributes only 5-8% to the total output of a cigarette and the remaining bulk that cannot
be seen makes up the vapour or gas phase of cigarette smoke. It contains assortment of
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toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, and
nitrogen oxides. Smokers extract almost 90% of the particulates from the mainstream smoke
of the 600 billion cigarettes consumed annually in the United States alone. Some of the
chemicals found in a cigarette and their other uses are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1. Chemicals in a Cigarette (American Lung Association 2018)
CHEMICALS OTHER USES

Acetone Fingernail polish remover
Acetic Acid An ingredient in hair dye
Ammonia Found in urine and used in fertilizer
Arsenic Rat poison and weed killer
Benzene Found in rubber cement
Beryllium A toxic metal used for x-ray tubes, nuclear
weapons and rocket fuel additives
Butane Cigarette lighter fluid
Cadmium Used in paint and to make batteries
Carbon Monoxide Found in car exhaust fumes
Ethylene oxide Used to make pesticides
Formaldehyde Used to preserve dead people
Hexamine Found in barbecue lighter fluid
Hydrogen cyanide Gas chamber poison
Lead Used in batteries
Methanol A main component in rocket fuel
Naphtalene Used for mothballs
Nicotine Used as insecticide
Stearic acid Candle wax
Tar Material for paving roads
Toluene Used to manufacture paint
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Nicotine, one of cigarette’s primary ingredients, is concluded to be as addictive as cocaine

and heroine by the U.S Surgeon General. Research has shown that nicotine increases the
level of dopamine in the brain, resulting in feelings of pleasure and well-being. (Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention ym. 2010; Maritz and Mutemwa 2012.) It is an alkaloid
obtained from the leaves of the tobacco plant (Karaconji 2005). It is absorbed through the
mouth, lungs, skin or gut, metabolized by the liver, and is excreted via urine, feces, bile,
saliva and sweat. It is also one of the most toxic of all poisons with a rapid onset of action
that can affect the different body systems, specifically the peripheral and central nervous
system, causing tremors, convulsions and even coma in severe cases. (Mishra ym. 2015.)
Inhaled nicotine can produce airway obstruction thereby making cigarette smoking the major
cause of COPD (Karanconji 2005). The lethal dose of nicotine is estimated to range from
1mg/kg to 10mg/kg. Figure 1 shows the different sources of Nicotine and their nicotine
contents in mg.
Figure 1. Sources of Nicotine. (Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, 2011)
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2.4 Prevalence of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke
40% of children, 33% of male non-smokers, and 35% of female non-smokers were exposed
to second-hand smoke worldwide. Exposure to second-hand smoke for children was often
defined as having one or both parents who smoke or being exposed to tobacco smoke or to
a person who smokes indoors. For adults, the definitions of exposure were often based on
having a spouse who smokes or exposure to tobacco smoke at work and can be further
characterized by the number of cigarettes smoked by the spouse, the duration and
frequency of exposure. (Öberg ym. 2011.) The estimates are shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Proportion of children and adult non-smokers exposed regularly to SHS smoke in
2004 by WHO region. (Öberg ym. 2011)
In Finland, the number of employees exposed to SHS has considerably decreased mainly
due to the implementation of the Tobacco Control Act of 1976 in 1995 that prohibits smoking
at work. Figure 3 shows the prevalence of daily exposure to ETS at work and at home among
non-smokers between 1983-2014.
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Figure 3. The prevalence of daily exposure in Finland to SHS at work and at home among
non-smokers in 1983-2014. (Terveyden ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos 2015)
The European Health Interview Survey (2014) report also claimed that 1 in every 4 persons
aged 15 or over in the European Union is a smoker and 1 in 5 is exposed to SHS. Among
EU Member States, Sweden, Finland, Portual and Hungary scored the lowest shares of SHS
exposure indoors, affecting only less than 10% of the population and Greece had the highest
prevalence of SHS exposure indoors, exposing 64.2% of its population on a daily basis.
Figure 4 shows the different EU countries and their daily exposure to SHS indoors for the
year 2014 as reported by Eurostat. The data on smoking habits of the population aged 15
or over will be attached differently in the Appendix (B).
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Figure 4. Daily Exposure to SHS indoors in the EU Member States, 2014. (% of population
aged 15 or over) (Eurostat)
While homes and workplaces remains the predominant locations for exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke and tends to be higher for lower income individuals, exposure
to secondhand smoke still continues in some restaurants, bars, and casinos (USDHHS
2006.) A study conducted by American Journal of Public Health (Repace 2009) in
Penssylvania casinos concluded that nonsmoking workers or costumers exposed to casino
SHS in an eight hour shift would experience "unhealthy air" in accordance to the US Air
Quality Index. SHS-induced heart disease and lung cancer will cause an estimated six
Pennsylvania casino workers' deaths annually, five-fold the death rate from Pennsylvania
mining disasters. (Repace 2009.)
A separate study by Minh et.al (2012) conducted in Vietnam correlates the status of
exposure to SHS at home among non-smokers at home by gender, age, occupation,
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ethnicity, residence, and smoking restrictions at home (Minh ym. 2012). The findings are
summarized in Table 2.
Table 2. Patterns of SHS at home among non-smoking populations by socio-demographic

characteristics. (Minh ym. 2012)
CHARACTERISTICS FINDINGS / PREVALENCE

Gender Females were more likely to be exposed to
SHS at home than males
Age Increasing age decreased the prevalence
of exposure to SHS at home
Occupation People working as service/sales, farmer,
production, drivers are more likely to be
exposed to SHS at home than managers
Ethnicity People belonging to ethnic minority groups
were more likely to be exposed to SHS at
home
Residence People living in rural areas were more
likely to be exposed to SHS at home than
people living in urban areas
Smoking restrictions in the home Exposure to SHS at home was
siginificantly prevalent in households were
smoking is allowed.
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3 PURPOSE AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effects of passive smoking on non-smokers
and the nurse’s role in the control of second-hand smoke exposure and the aim was to
provide an evidence-based literature review to be published on Theseus and a powerpoint
presentation to be published in Terveysnetti.
The research questions for this project were:
1. What are the effects of passive smoking on non-smokers?
2. What is the role of nurses in the control of second-hand smoke exposure?
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4 DATA AND METHODS
4.1 Review Method
A literature review is a search and evaluation of the available literature in a given subject or
of a chosen topic area. It is “objective, thorough summary and critical analysis of the relevant
available research and non-research literature on the topic being studied” (Hart 1998). A
literature review provides readers a background study with the current knowledge and clarify
the importance of the new study (Polit and Beck 2010, 170).
Literature review is a systematic investigation of knowledge that is available on a certain

topic. It is written using peer-reviewed articles and sources which are designed to be as
unbiased and objective as possible. It is essential for literature review to be unbiased and
the information given must be accurate and uninfluenced by somebody’s opinion or personal
interests. (Aveyard 2007.)
According to Oliver (2012), the key aspect to be taken into consideration during research
process based on literature review is the structure. Information obtained should be
systematic and is correlated to the subject matter. The literature should be presented in an
orderly manner, considering the importance of making the literature easy to follow by
readers. Arguments presented as expected, should be based on academic research facts
and not thoughts or opinions. (Oliver 2012.)
Literature review is also essential because it ensures that much of the previously conducted
studies can be summarized together. Owing to the fact that a lot of previous studies have
been conducted, it is difficult for readers to assimilate all the information without bringing
them together through literature review. This method of study therefore ensures that
scattered information is brought together through summary. (Aveyard 2007.)
Literature review must be well-organized and the overall evidence are evaluated critically to
reveal the current state of knowledge on the given topic. Reviews with inconsistent results
should not be ignored but must be analysed objectively to ensure validity and integrity of the
given research statistics. (Polit and Beck 2010, 185).
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4.2 Data Collection
For the collection of data, variety of search engines and keywords related to the research
questions were used. Turku University of Applied Sciences provides databases for use such
as CINAHL (Cumulatvie Index to Nursing and Health Alliance Literature) Complete and
PubMed. A public search engine like Google Scholar was also utilized. Table 3 provides a
clearer picture of the search strategy used to select articles in relation to the research
questions.
Table 3. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
INCLUSION EXCLUSION
Articles and journals published between Articles and journals published prior to 2007
year 2007 – 2018
Articles written in English only Articles written in another language
Open access articles and journals both Abstracts and full text are not available
in Abstract and Full text
Scientific-based articles and journals Articles that required payment and non-
scientific
Effects of passive smoking on non- Effects of passive smoking on children and
smoking adults pregnant women
The authors used these three main key databases to obtain numerous articles using the key
phrases such as “passive smoking”, “lung cancer”, “coronary heart diseases”, “respiratory
illness”, and “theory of planned behavior”. The key word “passive smoking” alone with the
refined search generated 278 results in CINAHL Complete, 1565 search results from
PubMed with a five-year limitation and 7 million from Google due to lack of inclusion and
exclusion criterias in the database search. Due to the exhausting results, the relevance of
each articles were undetermined. However, by further narrowing down and screening using
the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the search generated more relevant amount of articles
related to passive smoking on adults both from CINAHL Complete and Pubmed and most
of these articles were considered. Multiple articles were chosen from both database
searches and a total of 18 articles were finally included in the thesis. Abstracts of the articles
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retrieved during search procedures were independently reviewed and articles were
examined on a case-to-case basis.
A public search engine was also utilized, specifically Google, Inc. and Google Scholar,
mostly for searching trusted sites of different government organizations such as WHO and
U.S Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) that have studied the effects of
passive smoking, different scientifically-based reviews and trusted articles that were made
available to the public but were not found in CINAHL Complete or PubMed. For the role of
nurses in control of control of secondhand smoke, Google was mainly used for the
explanation of Newman’s Theory of Expanding Consciousness (Endo 2017) and Theory of
Planned Behavior (Kirk ym. 2007) as well as O’Connell’s (2009) research as the article is
only available in abstract form in PubMed. Google was also the main search engine in finding
the role of nursing in the control of SHS exposure. Overview of the literature search is shown
below (Table 4.)
Table 4. Overview of literature search.
DATABASE KEYWORDS NUMBER OF HITS PICKS ARTICLES

CINAHL Passive 28 4 Mu ym. 2013
Complete smoking * lung Stayner ym. 2007
cancer Repace 2009
Öberg ym. 2011
CINAHL Passive 10 1 Heo and Lee 2015
Complete smoking *
cardiovascular
diseases
CINAHL Passive 20 1 Brenner ym. 2010
Complete smoking *
respiratory
illness
CINAHL Passive 5 1 Awawdi ym. 2016
Complete smoking *
Coronary
Heart Disease
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CINAHL Passive 23 2 Leung ym. 2010

Complete smoking * Patra ym. 2015
tuberculosis
PubMed Passive 1640 5 Cao ym. 2015
smoking * lung Coogan ym. 2015
cancer Hori ym. 2016
Li ym. 2015
Taylor ym. 2007
PubMed Passive 344 1 Fisher and Kraemer
smoking * 2015
coronary heart
disease
PubMed Passive 291 1 Johannesseen ym.
smoking * 2012
respiratory
illness
PubMed Passive 7 1 Almirall ym. 2014
smoking *
community
acquired
pneumonia
PubMed Theory of 13 1 Joseph ym. 2016
planned
behavior *
nursing *
smoking
cessation
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4.3 Data Analysis
Data analysis determines the trends and relationships among the variables and summarizes
the process of data collection. It helps in the interpretation of data and takes a decision or
answers the research question. Data analysis starts with the collection of data followed by
sorting and processing it. The steps of data analysis are finding the main themes and then
the differences and similarities between the data (Polit and Beck 2012, 119.) Analysis of
data should be adequate to reveal its significance and the reliability of the data should be
checked carefully.
Tabulation is a part of technical procedure where the summarized raw data are put in a form
of table. Tables are essential for reducing explanatory and descriptive statement to a
minimum and it easily facilitates the process of comparison. (Kothari 2004, 18-27.) For the
presentation of the data analysis, a research table was made and has been attached in the
Appendix (A).
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5 RESULTS
In this chapter the authors tackle the effects of passive smoking and how nurses can take
more effective roles in the control and prevention of secondhand smoke.
5.1 Effects of Passive Smoking on Non-smokers
Figure 5. Diseases Caused by Active and Passive Smoking. (US Department of Health and
Human Services 2004, 2006)
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Figure 5 is an illustration about the different chronic diseases and illnesses acquired by an
active and a passive smoker according to the U.S Surgeon General. Table 5 is a summary
taken from the Surgeon General’s 2006 report entitled “The Health Consequences of
Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General.” It summarizes
the effects between passive smoking and the different serious diseases a non-smoker can
acquire from SHS exposure. To support the data, relevant articles were searched and
counterchecked on the basis of accuracy and recent findings.
Table 5. Effects of Passive Smoking. (U.S Department of Health and Human Services 2006)
DISEASES CONCLUSION
1. Cancer
a. Lung Cancer - Sufficient evidence suggests that SHS
exposure can cause lung cancer among
non-smokers.
- A 20 – 30 percent increase in the risk of
lung cancer from SHS exposure associated
with living with a smoker.
b. Breast Cancer - Insufficient but suggestive evidence links

SHS and breast cancer.
c. Cervical Cancer - Inadequate evidence to infer the presence

or absence of a causal relationship
between SHS exposure and the risk of
cervical cancer among lifetime non-
smokers.
2. Cardiovascular Diseases
a. Coronary Heart Disease - Sufficient evidence suggests a causal
relationship between SHS exposure and
increased risks of coronary heart diseases
morbidity and mortality among men and
women.
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- A 25 to 30 percent increase in the risk of

coronary heart disease from exposure to
SHS.
b. Stroke - Insufficient but suggestive evidence infers

a causal relationship between SHS and
stroke.
c. Vascular Disease - Insufficient but suggestive evidence infers

a causal relationship between SHS
exposure and atherosclerosis, particulary
carotid arterial wall thickening.
3. Respiratory Diseases
a. Asthma - Insufficient but suggestive evidence infers
exposure and adult-onset asthma.
- Insufficient but suggestive evidence infers
exposure and the worsening of asthma
control.
a. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary - Insufficient but suggestive evidence infers

Disease (COPD) a causal relationship between SHS and the
risk for Chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease.
- Inadequate evidence links the presence or
absence of a casual relationship between
SHS exposure and morbidity in persons
with COPD.
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A data analysis (Öberg ym. 2011) from 192 countries estimating the worldwide SHS
exposure and its burden of disease in both child and adult non-smokers is shown in Figure
6.
Figure 6. Number of deaths from exposure to second-hand smoke in 2004 by WHO

subregion. (Öberg ym. 2011)
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A more recent systematic literature review by Cao et al. (2015) that investigated the
association between passive smoking and certain diseases covering 130 cohort studies,
159 control studies and 161 cross-sectional studies involving 25 diseases or health
problems were reviewed and is summarized below (Table 6.)
Table 6. The Health Effects of Passive Smoking. (Cao ym. 2015)
MAIN HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF PASSIVE SMOKING

A. Passive smoking and cancer risks
• Passive smoking were found to be associated with increased lung cancer
• A positive relationship between positive smoking and cervical cancer is suggested
• Pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and bladder cancer were not found to be
associated with passive smoking
B. Passive smoking and allergic diseases
• A consistent evidence of a modest positive association between passive smoking
and childhood asthma
C. Passive smoking and other diseases
• Effects of passive smoking on increased risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes
and tuberculosis were not conclusive due to low quality of the corresponding
metalysis.
5.1.1 Cancer
Passive smoking can lead to lung cancer in non-smoking adults. Non-smokers who are
exposed to passive smokers at home and at work increase the risk of developing lung cancer
by 20-30%. Aggregated exposure to ambient tobacco smoke is estimated to produce about
5000 lung cancer deaths per year in U.S. alone and based on a study conducted by the U.S
Surgeon General between 1964-2014, 2.5 million died from exposure to secondhand
smoke, approximately 7,330 deaths from lung cancer and 33,950 deaths from heart disease
each year. (USDHHS 2014.)
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Furthermore, secondhand smoke increases the risk of casino workers and other workers
exposed to ETS in developing lung cancer, as well as family members being exposed to
SHS at home (Stayner ym. 2007; Repace 2009; Brenner ym. 2010). Two different studies
conducted in China (Mu ym. 2013; Li ym. 2015), one in Japan (Hori ym. 2016) and one
based per continent by Taylor et. al (2007) all revealed a significant increase in the risk of
acquiring lung cancer among female non-smokers exposed to heavy passive smoking at
work and non-smoking women to smoking spouses, (Taylor ym. 2007; Mu ym. 2013; Li ym.
2015; Hori ym. 2016) also correlating a positive association with breast cancer risk mainly
among menopausal women exposed to SHS at home (Li ym. 2015).
5.1.2 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases
A systematic literature review conducted by Fisher and Kraemer (2015) using the meta-
analysis method that included 24 previous articles and studies regarding passive smoking
and its connection to COPD, stroke and Ishaemic heart diseases (IHD) further reiterated the
increase risk of a non-smoker to suffer from these diseases, most especially from COPD,
also further suggesting a strong and consistent association between SHS and stroke.
(Fisher and Kraemer 2015.) For all three outcomes, the effect sizes were larger for women
than for men. This result is assumed to be connected to the anti-estrogenic effect of cigarette
smoking that increases the risk of IHD in women, linking hormonal factors in the increased
vulnerability to SHS exposure. Heo and Lee (2014) in a separate study attributed
secondhand smoke as a considerable disease burden among non-smoking Korean women.
Reseachers in Bergen, Norway also revealed that passive smoking during childhood
increased the overall risk of developing COPD than exposure to environmental smoke in
adulthood (Johannessen ym. 2012). A study further correlates an increase risk of suffering
a myocardial infarction by 4-fold in partners of spouses that smoked more than 20 cigarettes
a day (Awawdi 2015).
An increase in the relative risk of active tuberculosis, another infectious disease of the lungs,
was also noted due to secondhand smoke exposure. Patra et. al (2015) and Leung et. al
(2010) concluded that sidestream smoke can weaken the lungs’ first lining of defense or
mechanical barriers thereby increasing the individual’s susceptibility in acquiring TB
infection that can lead to tuberculosis disease progression. (Leung ym. 2010; Patra ym.
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2015). Acute tobacco smoke exposure also plays a role in increasing allergic sensitization
by having its adverse effects on the airwary epithelium, worsening allergic responses to
inhaled allergens. This mechanism increases the risk among non-smokers but still presents
some limitation between passive smoking exposure with adult-onset Asthma. (Coogan ym.
2015).
In the case of Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP), SHS exposure only shows a signifant
effect in participants 65 years old or above who maybe exposed for a prolonged period of
time, but the influence of passive smoking exposure on the appearance of CAP in adults of
all ages on the basis of this population-based study still remains uncertain (Almirall ym.
2014.)
5.2 Role of Nurses in the Control of Secondhand Smoke Exposure
In the sub-chapters, the roles of nurses in the control of SHS exposure will be discussed
and divided into two parts: the theoretical-based approach and the clinical/community-based
approach. The theoretical-based approach focuses on two particular behavioral theories
(Newman’s Theory of Expanding Consciousness and the Theory of Planned Behavior)
guiding nursing research about smoking cessation and other nursing theories will be
discussed briefly. The clinical/community-based Approach will focus more on the different
nursing roles and interventions applicable on both clinical and community setting.
5.2.1 Theoretical-based approach
According to Evans (2011), the relationship between knowledge and behavior change is
complex and can lead to mental conflict. And in order to achieve consonance, either the
belief or the behavior must be changed. (Evans 2011.) Well-established theories can enable
nurses to identify and describe health behaviors and develop evidence of what is most likely
to change a target behavior and behavioral health theory provides a good framework for
designing, implementing and evaluating the effects of health promotion programs (Barley
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and Lawson 2016; Joseph 2016). However, a single theory offers no guarantee of success
due factors influencing smoking cessation such as societal norms, community, family,
individual or physiological. Because no single theory can manage all these levels, theory-
based interventions often use more than one theory. (O’Connell 2009).
A. Newman’s Theory of Expanding Consciousness
Margaret Newman's nursing model of health as expanding consciousness and crisis theory
could be used as a theoretical foundation. Newman’s expanding on a concept of health and
illness proposed a view of health that includes a dialectical fusion of disease and non-
disease, bringing about the synthesis of health. The tension in illness can allow patterns of
expanding consciousness to emerge. Serving as an integrating factor, illness may facilitate
desired change for the person or growth. Such change is reflected in the person-
environment interactional pattern. It can be derived from this theory that once smokers are
aware of the ill effects of smoking their smoking might be lessened. (Endo 2017.)
The HEC Praxis: The Process of Pattern Recognition or PRAXIS is a type of nursing
intervention that focuses on the patient as a whole and finds meaning in the experience. The
aim is to genuinely interact with the patient, with both growing in the sense of higher levels
of consciousness. The step-by-step process of Praxis is:
STEP 2
STEP 1 The patient is STEP 3 STEP 4
invited to talk
When the
A mutual about The diagram is
patient realizes
process of meaningful shared with the
the patient’s
inquiry is events in life. patient and
pattern, the
established with The nurse then dialogue
partnership is
the patient make a simple resumes freely.
diagram about terminated.
it.
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A nurse enters this process with the patient is in a state of chaos. Newman’s nursing theory
is seen as a partnership between the nurse and the patient. It states that consciousness is
a manifestation of an evolving pattern or a person-environment interaction. (Endo 2017.)
Figure 7 shows how a nurse and a patient coming together and moving apart in process
recognition, insight and transformation.
Figure 7. Process of caring partnership based on Newman’s Theory of Expanding

Consciousness (Newman 2008)
B. Theory of Planned Behavior
On the other hand, Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is directed towards health providers
such as nurses and is one of the most widely used in research (Kirk ym. 2007). The TBP
has been used in many studies to understand, predict and design interventions to change
health behaviours and health professionals’ behavioral intentions and behaviours. These
include studies measuring and predicting nurses’ behaviours in relation to 38 providing
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specific interventions such as smoking cessations and implementing best practice

guidelines. (Godin and Kok 1996.)
According to TBP, considering the consequences of demonstrating the behavior or not,

behaviors are adopted for a reason (Kirk ym. 2007). People will likely perform a behavior
and a greater behavioral intention if favorable attitudes and subjective norms towards the
behavior is present and there is a high perceived control over performing the behavior.
Thefore by using the TBP to encourage a smoker to abstain from tobacco use, the
development of many chronic diseases is greatly reduced. (Joseph ym 2016). The TBP
model is illustrated in Figure 8.
Figure 8. The Theory of Planned Behavior. (Azjen 1991)
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The TBP asserts that the best predictor of behavior is Behavioral intention (Werner 2012;
Kirk 2007) and it is influenced by three factors as shown in the flowchart below.
Behavioral Beliefs Normative Beliefs Control Beliefs
Individuals’ beliefs about Results in perceived Perceived ease or

the outcomes of the social or peer pressure difficulty of performing
target behavior or subjective norm the behavior
• If I make a decision, • What do others • Do I have the

what will the expect me to do? necessary
outcomes be? knowledge to make
• How do they expect
• What are the me to behave? the decisions?
benefits of this • Am I convident in my
• Will I be supported
decions and the ability to behave this
or ridiculed?
consequences? way?
C. Other Nursing Theories
According to O’Connell (2009), nursing theories in smoking cessation research were rarely
used. Smoking cessation research is a multidisciplinary phenomen that requires nurse
researchers to be familiar with a wide body of disciplinary approaches and to look outside
of nursing literature for ideas about smoking. Moreover, it is only in the last few years that
research on smoking cessation has become more common in nursing. However, it is
possible that nursing theories may be able to explain some phenomena in smoking.
(O’Connell 2009.)
Table 7 shows the different nursing theories guiding research about smoking cessation and
Table 8 is about the different concepts and implicit theories used in smoking cessation
studies.
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Table 7. Nursing Theories Guiding Research About Smoking Cessation. (O’Connell 2009)
NAME OF THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS DESCRIPTION OF THEORY/MODEL

1. Orem Self-Care Deficit Theory People maintain life and well-being by
caring for themselves. It comprises of
three theories:
• Self-care deficits
• Self-care
• Nursing systems
2. Roy Adaptation Model A person is an adaptive system with
input, control process (regulator and
cognator), effectors (physiologic, self
concept, role function, and
interdependence), and output (adaptive
and ineffective responses)
3. Interaction Model of Client Health outcomes are influenced by
elements of client’s singularity (e.g
previous experience, instrinsic
motivation, affective responses) and the
client-provider relationship (e.g. affective
support, decisional support, professional
competence)
4. Meleis Transition Theory A transition is a change in health status,
role relationships, expectations, or
abilities. Transitions may involve
perceptions of disconnectedness,
temporary loss of familiar reference
points, new needs, or unmet needs and
vulnerability to risks.
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Table 8. Frequently Used Concepts and Possible Implicit Theories in Smoking Cessation
Studies Not Using Formal Theories. (O’Connell 2009)
MAJOR CONCEPTS POSSIBLE IMPLICIT THEORIES

1. Nicotine Dependence
a. Nicotine dependence • There are racial differences in
dependence
• Smoking to cope with the stress
lead to increased dependence
• Secondhand smoke leads to
nicotine dependence
• Dependence influences quitting
b. Nicotine replacement therapy or
pharmacotherapy • Because nicotine is addictive,
success at quitting is increases by
using pharmacotherapy to replace
nicotine or to mimic its effects.
2. Social Support
a. Support from Nurses and Other • Support for cessation from nurses
Healthcare Provider Support and health care providers including
inteventions by improve quit rates
b. Partner / Family / Peer Support • Partner, family and peer support
helps improves quit rates
3. High risk situations
a. Strategies for coping with cravings • Use of coping strategies during
high risk situations improve
success at quitting
b. Environmental cues, including partner or • Smoking cues hightens cravings
family smoking and lead to lapses during cessation
4. Affect/Mood
a. Anxiety and psychiatric symptoms • Anxiety and psychiatric symptoms
increase relapse
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b. Stress • Stress increases smoking and

relapse
• Interventions to reduce stress will
prevent relapse
5. Influence of Diagnosis
a. Diabetes • Severity of diabetes affects
willingness to quit
b. Heart • Gender and age affects likelihood
of continued smoking
c. Lung Disease • Feedback on decline in lung
function increases likelihood of
quitting and lung cancer diagnosis
affects willingness to quit
d. Pregnancy • Pregnancy affects willingness to
quit
• Age and socio-economic status
affect pregnant smokers’
willingness to quit
e. Mental Illness • Serious mental illness makes
cessation more difficult
5.2.2 Clinical and community-based approach
Historically nurses worked as advocates to ban smoking. Understanding the effects of

passive smoking can empower nurses to take an active role in patient’s health. Nurses can
take a more effective role within the workplace in raising awareness and encouraging
patients to stop smoking. They can also take an active role within society by engaging in
anti-tobacco legislation. (Smith ym. 2005.)
A survey conducted by Evans (2011) revealed that the respondents know the risk of
respiratory illnesses related to SHS exposure but are less aware of any non-respiratory
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diseases it may cause. Awareness has improved over the last decade levels of knowledge
remain low. Researchers in Australia also found out that smokers immediately indicated
that they would avoid exposing both adults and children to their SHS after they were
informed of the risk of SHS to non-smokers. (Evans 2011.)
Another strategy by Husten (2009) taking the community-based approach is summarized

below.
Table 9. Community Preventive Service Task Force Recommendations for Interventions

That Increase Tobacco Use Cessation. (Task Force on Community Preventive Services,
2005, Husten 2009)
Strong Evidence of Effectiveness

Increasing the unit price for tobacco products
Mass media education campaigns combined with other interventions
Health care provider reminder systems with provider education, with or without client
education.
Sufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
Health care provider reminder systems
Reducing client out-ot-pocket costs for effective cessation therapies
Smoke-free policies to reduce tobacco use among workers
Nursing organizations such as Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) also recommended a

three-faceted strategy in the use of tobacco that includes:
• Prevention – to help the non-smokers from starting

• Cessation – to help people who quit smoking prevent relapse
• Protection – to protect non-smokers from secondhand smoke
It considers the provision of smoking cessation interventions to be a standard of nursing

care and is widely recognized as an effective clinical practice. Helping to keep non-smokers
from starting is the most important strategy of the three. The combination of
Pharmacotherapy and counseling has also shown an increase in the cessation rate
significantly. (CNA 2018.)
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The 5A’s framework (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange) has also been widely
recommended for smoking cessation. The 5 A’s model (as shown in Table 10) is a short,
goal-oriented way to address tobacco use more effectively with patients with the goal of
meeting tobacco users’ needs in terms of readiness to quit. The concept is summarized
below.
Figure 9. The 5A’s concept model. (Glasgow 2002)
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Table 10. The 5A’s Change Concept. (Glasgow 2002)
THE FIVE A’S CHANGE CONCEPT

PATIENT LEVEL OFFICE ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY POLICY
(Patient-Provider (Standard Operating
Interaction) Procedure)
ASSESS
- Have patient - Assess - To record behavior - Work on state health
periodically patient’s status for smoking, department or other
complete valid knowledge about weight, exercise etc. organizations to develop
health behavior their chronic -Add behaviors to the community health
surveys and condition. problem list for patient. behavior survey
provide them with - Provide patient - Inform staff to collect or - Perform needs
feedback. with personalized update key behaviors assessment in
feedback and status at each visit. partnership with other
results. community groups
- Assess
confidence and
conviction
regarding target
behaviors.
ADVISE
- Provide relevant - Inform patient - Develop list of benefits - Recognize and
and specific that behavioral of behavior change and reinforce staff for
recommendations issues are as risk reduction. documented advice to
for behavior important as - Develop list of common change behavior.
change. taking symptoms that quitting - Recommend the
medication. smoking can improve. reimbursement of the 5
- Document - Arrange prompt system A’s Action Planning.
behavior change to remind health
advice in the practitioners to advice
form of a behavior change.
prescription.
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AGREE
- Use shared - Have patient - Make sure patient goals - Determine that goals
decision-making develop specific, are in chart and all team were set in a
strategies that measurable, members refer to them. collaborative fashion
include feasible goal for - Incorporate videos on by developing
collaborative goal behavior change. patient role or choice into assessment method.
setting. - Provide options practice and have - Require or reimburse
and choices patients see prior to documentation of
among possible consultation. collaboratively set goals
self management in medical records.
goals.
ASSIST
- Include action - Help the patient - Plan for the setting, - Collaborate with
planning and develop specifically focusing on community groups and
problem solving strategies to the 4s’ (size, scope, referrals to develop
as an effective address barriers scalability and Action Plans and
self management to change. sustainability) in planning communication
support - Patient referral any office restructuring. avenues.
strategies. to evidence - Evaluate adverse
- Help patients based education effects and quality of life
create specific or behavioral for program revision and
strategies to counseling cost- benefit analysis.
address their (individual or
issues of group).
concern. - Elicit patient’s
views and plans
regarding
potential
resources and
support within
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family and
community.
ARRANGE
- Follow-up on - E-mail follow-up -Develop collaborative - Follow-up with
action plans and or brief letter process that can facilitate community programs to
referrals. restating plan communications and see how many patients
- Partner with and inviting support with other attended and to get
community questions. practices. information on their
groups to - Arrange for -Develop follow-up progress.
improve services patient to contact checklist to make sure -Recognize/Reward
and linkages and specific follow-up is provided. social and economic
establish a two- community -Include blank on action environment in which
way resources that plan form for follow-up these health systems
communication. could support date. interventions occur. -
their goals. Reimburse follow-up
- Follow-up with phone calls, e-mail
goals set in contacts, etc., outside of
action plan at face-to-face visit.
each non-acute
visit.
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Tobacco Cessation The 5 A's of Brief 35 Minute Tobacco Intervention Environmental Tobacco Smoke

(ETS) or Second Hand Smoke
1. ASK No Congratulations! Reinforce

Do you currently use tobacco? 1. ASK
(cigarettes, cigars, pipe, snuff, chewing tobacco)
decision to be a nonsmoker. Does anyone smoke around you
Yes or your family?
2. ADVISE 3. ASSESS Yes No

Advise of importance of quitting: The most important advice I can give Willingness to quit: Are you thinking about quitting?
you is to quit smoking and I can help.
2. ADVISE Congratulations
Encourage to smoke
Yes Yes No Reinforce benefits
outside the home and
Want to quit now (Action ) In next 6 months (Contemplation) Not ready of smokefree air
not inside vehicle
In next 30 days & set Quit Date (Preparation) (Precontemplation ) and reduced risk
of:
Lung cancer
Tobacco Use & Dependence Heart disease
ASSIST Stroke
Offer information and resources on: 3. ASSIST
How many cigarettes* do you smoke/day? Offer secondhand smoke Asthma
When do you have your first cigarette after waking? Risks of secondhand smoke, tobacco use, SIDS
resources obtained from:
# cigarettes First cigarette Tobacco cessation strategies.
after waking Dependence Harm reduction approach, recognizing that best to
www.heartandstroke.sk.ca
Less than 1/2 pack More than 1 hour Low quit completely; no safe cigarette, one puff stiffens
1/2 1 pack 6 60 minutes Moderate arteries. www.preventioninstitute.sk.ca
More than 1 pack Less than 6 min High Direct patient to request copy of "For Smokers Who
When do you smoke during the day? Don't Want To Quit" from Smokers Helpline.
How long have you been smoking?
Have you quit in the past?
How many times? * 1 pkg = 25 cigarettes Provide Motivational Intervention – The 5 R’s
How did you quit? individualize NRT based on patient 1. Relevance
need Benefits of Quitting
Do you feel quitting smoking is an important
4. ASSIST thing to do for yourself and others around Young patients
Prescribe NRT and/or cessation medication (www.RxFiles.ca or CPS). you? Save money
Provide selfhelp materials: CCS "One Step At A Time”: booklets or direct 2. Risks Better breath, clean teeth and
patient to order from Smokers Helpline. What effect do you think your continued fingernails
Referral to cessation/community resources: Fewer wrinkles
smoking will have on you and others around
Smoker’s Helpline 18775135333 Reduced risk of impotence
Community pharmacist you?
Health Region Addiction Counsellor 3. Rewards Older patients
www.gosmokefree.ca Can you identify the benefits of quitting for Reduced risk of: lung cancer,
yourself and not smoking around others? heart disease, stroke, asthma
5. ARRANGE (Very Important Step) 4. Roadblocks
Followup for Reinforcement and Troubleshooting What is stopping you from quitting?
Maintenance in 1 week: What is working for you? 5. Repetition
or Relapse: What has been difficult? What further support do When opportunity presents, repeat the 5R's.
you need? (Reassess and go back to 4. Assist in Algorithm) Developed by 09/06
Continue to followup as required
THE 5A’S TOBACCO INTERVENTION FLOWCHART.
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Furthermore, International Society of Nurses Cancer Care’s (ISNCC) recommendations in

significantly reducing tobacco use were also taken into account and these are:
1) Nurses must be educated about the health effects of tobacco products, the different ways
of prevention of tobacco use and scientifical-based strategies for tobacco use dependence
treatment.
2) Nurses must take an active role in supporting local, national and international tobacco
control policy and legislation.
3) Nurses must ensure that tobacco use assessment, documentation and dependence
treatment is an expected part of care in all cancer inpatient and outpatient treatment
programs and protocols.
4) Nurses must discuss exposure to secondhand smoke at home and workplaces with
patients and families, including strategies to create tobacco-free environments.
5) Nurses should become non-smoking role models for their own health and the health of
their patients.
6) Nursing organizations should support cessation attempts by nurses and advocate for a
tobacco-free workplace.
7) Nurses should corroborate with other healthcare organizations, and tobacco-control

groups to strengthen and fund tobacco control at all levels, including by supporting nursing
research on tobacco use, prevention and cessation interventions, and reduction of exposure
to passive smoking in people with and at risk for cancer. (ISNCC 2015).
Nursing involvement in community action, promoting an environment free of tobacco smoke,

helping patients quit, and supporting effective tobacco control policies is essential to solve
this problem. Nurses must provide leadership in these efforts, along with other healthcare
professionals. (ISNCC 2015.)
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6 ETHICS AND VALIDITY
Research ethics is fundamental to research practice, nurse education and the development
of evidence (Doody and Noonan 2016). In order to promote the pursuit of knowledge and
truth, the authors made sure to follow ethical standards and adhere to the principles research
code of conduct that The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and Finnish
National Board on Research Integrity made as a guideline in conducting a research. The
authors acknowledged the important contribution and intellectual properties of others by
properly referencing their work in accordance to the Turku University of Applied Sciences’
thesis guidelines. Efforts were made to ensure that the results of the thesis were both valid
and reliable. The authors conducted the research in a fair and unbiased manner, did not
falsify documents nor fabricate result materials by omitting or suppressing data without
justification.
Ethical issues are important in all types of research and ethical considerations form a major
element in a research. Ethics according to Resnik (2011) are professional codes of conduct
that defines right or wrong and the process of data collection should be free from fabrications
or falicifications and misinterpretation of research data should be avoided at all cost (Resnik
2011).
The validity of the research data and results were assessed by retrieving not only from one
but from a number of previous literature. In this respect, findings of content analysis are
rather contestable if based only on the multiple judgments of a single researcher. By
involving several researchers into content analysis, validity and reliability of literature
sampling and data analysis may be broadly enhanced.
According to Winterstein and Kimberlin (2008), validity is not a property in itself. Validity is
the extent to which the interpretations of the data were warranted to its intended use.
(Winstein and Kimberlin 2008.) Content validity must also cover the domain
comprehensively, has a fair representation, and the elements chosen for the research
samples are addressed in depth. Ensuring adequate resources for the required research to
be undertaken and selecting a suitable methodology for answering the research qestions
can minimize the threats to validity. (Cohen ym. 2007, 137-144.)
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7 DISCUSSION
The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effects of passive smoking on non-smoking
adults and how can nurses take an active role in the control of environmental tobacco
smoke.
Passive smoking or Secondhand smoke is the smoke that comes from the burning end of
the cigarette, pipe, or cigar the smoke that is exhaled by a smoker. Secondhand smoke is
inhaled by adults and children who are near people who are smoking. Millions of children
and adults are exposed to secondhand smoke each year, killing hundreds of non-smokers
in the process. Passive smoking is associated with significant morbidity and mortality rate.
It has been proven to cause serious cardiovascular and respiratory diseases to passive
smokers and it increases the risk of getting lung cancer. Breathing in secondhand smoke
even for a short time also harms the cardiovascular system and increases the risk of heart
attack and stroke. The dangerous effects of passive smoking to non-smokers do not
necessarily manifest immediately but can still show years after being exposed to
secondhand tobacco smoke, and by then it would be too late.
As evidenced by multiple researches done in the past, cigarettes are highly addictive and
quitting from smoking is easier said than done. As nurses, we may not be able to fully
prevent passive smoking but we can help the patient modify the behavior. Therefore
behavioral therapy when combined with pharmacotherapy is deemed to be effective in
addressing smoking cessation. As health care providers, we should also be responsible in
making the public aware about the dangers of passive smoking. All health professionals
should also promote smoke-free policies, particularly where services are delivered so that
patients will not be exposed to secondhand smoke in the health facilities. Since there is no
safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke, air filters or ventilation systems just do not
work to remove secondhand smoke from the air. The only effective way to prevent exposure
to secondhand smoke is to eliminate smoking in all indoors. Smoke-free homes and smoke-
free workplace policies are the best way to protect people from exposure to secondhand
smoke. By having a smoke-free facility, health professionals can encourage patients to live
in a smoke-free home and work in a smoke- free workplace, which will help them avoid
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
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Although the prevalence of passive smoking in western developed countries has

significantly decreased due to aggressive anti-tobacco campaigns and strict implementation
of anti-tobacco legislations, secondhand smoke in some Asian and African countries still
remains a major health public concern. Furthermore, the health effects of e-cigarettes or
vaping have not been well established due to insufficient scientific-based studies and
researches available as of this writing. Thus, it would be beneficial if the future studies would
concentrate on reducing secondhand smoke in developing countries and further research is
needed to clarify the health effects of e-cigarettes or vaping. Information yielded by such
studies can enable health care professionals to deliver more effective services against
passive smoking.
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8 CONCLUSION
This thesis was intended to explore the effects of passive smoking on non-smokers and how
nurses can take active roles in the control of secondhand smoke. On the basis of the
available studies and research data gathered for the purpose of this thesis, it is therefore
concluded that:
1. Secondhand smoke exposure can increase a non-smoker’s risk of getting lung

cancer by up to 20-30%.
2. Sufficient evidence suggests a causal relationship between secondhand smoke
exposure and increase risks of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases such as
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),
ans stroke.
3. Insufficient but suggestive evidence infers a causal relationship between
secondhand smoke exposure and increase risks of asthma, tuberculosis and
Community Acquired Pneumonia(CAP).
Furthermore, we may not be able to fully prevent passive smoking as nurses but we can still
take effective measures by:
1. Taking an active role in raising awareness about secondhand smoke through health
education and health counseling.
2. Helping an active smoker to quit smoking using the 5A’s model (Assess, Advice,
Agree, Assist, Arrange.)
3. Promoting smoke-free environment, both at home and at workplace.
4. Acting as advocates to ban smoking and become non-smoking role models.
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APPENDIX A
A. RESEARCH TABLE
Author(s)/ Journal / Title & Year Aim & Purpose Research Method Sample &Place Main results
Country
Almirall, J., Serra- Passive smoking at To assess whether A population-based A population-based case- Passive smoking at home is a
Prat, M., Bolibar, I., home is a risk factor ETS exposure at case-control study was control study was risk factor for CAP in older
Palomera, E., Roig, for community- home is a risk designed to determine designed in a adults (65 years or more).
J., Hospital, I., acquired pneumonia factor for the risk factors for CAP Mediterranean area with
Carandell, E., in older adults: A community- including home 860 000 inhabitants >14
Agusti, M., Ayuso, population-based acquired exposure to years of age. 1003
P., Estela, A., case-control study pneumonia (CAP) secondhand smoke. participants who had
Torres, A. and the (2014) in adults. never smoked were
Study Group of recruited and the study
Community- sample included 471
Acquired patients with CAP and 532
Pneumonia in controls who had never
Catalan Countries smoked.
(PACAP)
Awawdi, K., Steiner, Association between To study the A matched case- A total of 146 women were Exposure to domestic passive
H., Green, M., and second-hand association control study was included, the majority had smoking is independently
Zelber-Sagi, S. smoking and acute between assessed among non- type-2 diabetes and were associated with Coronary
heart disease among secondhand smoke smoking Arab women. overweight or obese. Heart Disease in Arab women.
Arab women with and Coronary Heart The control group was
women without
multiple factors Disease in Arab Coronary Heart
(2015) women in Israel. Disease who were
individually according
to age and type-2
diabetes. The women
were interviewed with
structured
questionnaires on
exposure to
secondhand smoke
and on attitudes
towards such
exposure.
Brenner, D., Hung, Lung Cancer risk in A case-control Unconditional logistic 445 cases (35% of which Increased lung cancer risk
RJ., Tsao, MS., never smokers: a study was regression models were never smokers) were associated with any
Shepherd, FA., population-based conducted in were used to estimate between the ages of 20-84 previous exposure to
Johnson, MR., case-control study of Toronto area to the associations were identified through 4 occupational exposures OR
Narod, S., epidemiologic risk evaluate potential between exposures major tertiary care never smokers, a previous
Rubenstein, W., factors (2010) lung cancer risk and lung cancer risk. hospitals in metropolitan diagnosis of emphysema, or a
McLaughlin, JR. factors including Toronto between 1997 first degree family member
secondhand and 2002 and were with a previous cancer
exposure, family frequency matched on sex diagnosis before age 50
history of cancer and ethnicity with 425 among never smokers.
and history of population controls and
previous respiratory 523 hospital controls.
diseases, indoor air
pollution, workplace
exposures with
special
consideration given
to never smokers.
Cao, S., Yang, C., The Health Effects of To systematically A systematic literature Passive smoking appears not
Gan, Y., and Lu, Z. Passive Smoking: summarize the search of PubMed, to be significantly associated
An Overview of available Embase, Web of with eight diseases or health
Systematic Reviews epidemiological Science, and Scopus problems, but significantly
Based on evidence to identify for meta-analyses was elevates the risk for eleven
Observational the impact of conducted through specific diseases or health
Epidemiological secondhand smoke January 2015. problems, including cervical
Evidence (2015) on health. Systematic reviews cancer, Neisseria meningitidis
that investigated the carriage, Streptococcus
association between pneumoniae carriage, food
ETS exposure and allergy, and so on.
certain diseases were
included. Quantitative
outcomes of
association between
passive smoking and
the risk of certain
diseases were
summarized.
Coogan, P., Castro- Active and Passive To assess the Cox regression models Active smoking status was Among 46,182 participants
Webb, N. Yu, J., Smoking and the separate were used to derive reported at baseline and followed from 1995 to 2011,
O’Connor, G., Incidence of Asthma associations of multivariable hazard updated on all follow-up 1,523 reported incident
Palmer, J., in the Black active and passive ratios and 95% questionnaires. SHS asthma.
Rosenberg, L. 2015. Women’s Health smoking to the confidence intervals for exposure during
Study (2015) incidence of adult- former and current childhood, adolescence,
onset asthma in the smoking and SHS and adulthood was
U.S. Black exposure among ascertained in 1997.
Women’s Health nonsmokers compared Asthma cases comprised
Study. with a reference women who reported
category of never doctor-diagnosed asthma
active or passive with concurrent use of
smokers. asthma medication.
Evans, K., Sims, M., Assessing the To examine Statistical analysis of Only 40% of smokers had
Judge, K., Gilmore, knowledge of the peoples’ knowledge repeat cross-sectional good knowledge of ETS-
A. potential harm to of ETS-related data from the Omnibus related illnesses compared
others caused by illness in England Survey to explore the with 65% of never smokers.
second-hand smoke overtime, identify trends and Smokers with better
and its impact on the determinants of determinants of knowledge were more likely to
protective good knowledge knowledge of ETS- abstain from smoking in a
behaviours at home and assess its related illnesses and room with children and have
(2011) importance in the determinants of smoke-free homes.
predicting ETS- ETS-protective
behaviours.
protective
behaviours.
Fischer, F., and Meta-analysis of the The purpose of the A systematic literature For all three outcomes, the
Kraemer, A. Association between study is to quantify review was conducted effect sizes were larger for
Second-hand Smoke the effects of ETS to identify articles women than for men. The risk
exposure and exposure and its dealing with the factor of SHS exposure seems
Ischaemic Heart relation to association between to be particularly important for
Diseases, COPD, ischaemic heart ETS and the three COPD. A 66 % excess risk of
and Stroke (2015) diseases (IHD), outcomes: IHD, COPD COPD was calculated for
chronic obstructive and stroke. 24 articles people exposed to ETS for
pulmonary diseases were included in a both sexes combined. No
(COPD) and stroke. meta-analysis using a significant increase in the risk
random effects model. of getting Ischaemic Heart
Effect sizes stratified Disease (IHD) and stroke were
for sex and for both noted.
sexes combined were
calculated.
Heo, S., and Lee, JT. Disease burdens An estimation of the Information on the The numbers of ETS-
from the disease burdens study population from attributable deaths in female
environmental attributable ETS the 2010 Cause of and male non-smokers were
tobacco smoke in exposure in Korean Death Statistic was estimated to be 4.1 and 69.6
Korean adults. adults in 2010 and obtained and the ETS- % of the numbers of deaths
International Journal analyzed the trend attributable fraction attributable to current smoke.
of Environmental of that from 2005 to using data from the The deaths attributable to ETS
2010. Korean Community were larger in female than in
Health Research Health Survey and the male non-smokers. The ETS-
(2015) Korean National Health attributable deaths increased
and Nutrition slightly in the year 2005–2008
Examination Survey but decreased in 2009–2010.
was estimated.
Hori, M., Tanaka, H., Secondhand smoke A systematic review Potential confounding Relevant studies were The results were stable across
Wakai, K., Sasazuki, exposure and risk of and meta-analysis variables were collected from the different subgroup analyses,
S., and Katanoda, K. lung cancer in of the relationship accounted for and MEDLINE and Ichushi including by study design,
Japan: a systematic between ETS stratified analyses Web databases using a publication year, and when
review and meta- smoke and lung were carried out combination of search adjusting for confounding
analysis of cancer in Japanese according to study terms and Medical Subject variables.
epidemiologic non-smokers. design and publication Headings. Eligible studies Of the 12 populations included
studies (2016) year- were extracted, and in meta-analysis, positive ETS
relative risks or odds ratios smoke exposure-lung cancer
were identified to calculate associations were observed in
the pooled risk estimates. 11, and an inverse association
was found in the remaining 1.
Joseph, R., Daniel, Applying The purpose of the Randomized trials or To be eligible, studies Five behavioral health theories
C., Thind, H., Pyschological current article was articles of physical were required to explicitly were referenced in studies
Benitez, T., and Theories to Promote to extend a activity, weight loss, state a psychological or evaluating long-term
Pekmezi, D. Long-Term previous review tobacco cessation, and behavioral health theory maintenance of physical
Maintenance of which described abstinence from as an underpinning of activity, weight loss, and
Health Behaviors psychological excessive alcohol intervention activities, smoking cessation. These
(2016) theories used in consumption that focus on individuals ≥ 18 theories included: Self-
intervention reported relevant years of age, and report Determination Theory, Theory
research lifestyle behavior an objective or self- of Planned Behavior, Social
to motivate or outcomes at ≥ 6 reported outcome of the Cognitive Theory,
initiate behavior months post- behavior/risk factor of Transtheoretical Model, and
change. completion of the interest. Social Ecological Model.
intervention were
searched.
Johannessen, A., Association of To examine the Patients with COPD Patients with COPD The prevalence of childhood
Bakke, P., Hardie, Exposure to associations participated in the participated in the during exposure to SHS was 61%.
J., and Eagan, T environmental between childhood during 2006–2009 and 2006–2009 and analyses After adjustment, women who
tobacco smoke in secondhand smoke analyses were were stratified by gender. were exposed to SHS during
childhood with exposure and adult stratified by gender. Participants performed childhood had a higher risk of
chronic obstructive COPD and Participants performed spirometry and answered COPD than those who were
pulmonary disease respiratory spirometry and extensive questionnaires. not exposed and secondhand
and respiratory illnesses. answered extensive smoke exposure during
symptoms in adults questionnaires. childhood was associated with
(2012) respiratory illnesses among
males.
Leung, C., Lam, T., Passive Smoking To investigate the A cohort of female A cohort of female never- Passive smoking accounted
Ho, K., Yew, W., and Tuberculosis effect of never-smokers aged smokers aged 65 to 74 for 13.7% of active TB and for
Tam, C., Chan, W., (2010) secondhand 65 to 74 years living years living with their 18.5% of culture-positive
Law, W., Chan, C., tobacco smoke with their husband and husband and followed up tuberculosis in this cohort
Chang, K., and Au, exposure on followed up prospectively through study.
K. tuberculosis. prospectively through linkage with the territory-
linkage with the wide tuberculosis
territory-wide notification registry and
tuberculosis death registry for
notification registry and tuberculosis using an
death registry for identity card number as a
tuberculosis using an unique identifier.
identity card number
as a unique identifier.
Li, B., Wang, L., Lu, Passive Smoking To evaluate the A structured A hospital-based case- A positive association between
MH., Mo, XF., Lin, and Breast Cancer association questionnaire was control study including 877 passive smoking exposure and
FY, Ho, S., and Risk among Non- between passive used to collect breast cancer cases and breast cancer risk was
Zhang, CX. smoking Women: A smoking and breast information on passive 890 controls, frequency- observed. Compared with
Case Control Study cancer risk among smoking history matched by age and women who were never
in China (2015) Chinese women. through personal residence, was exposed to passive smoking,
interview by trained conducted. women who were ever
interviewers. exposed had a higher breast
Unconditional logistic cancer risk.
regression models
were used to estimate
the association
between secondhand
smoke and breast
cancer risk.
Mu, L., Liu, L., Niu, Indoor Air Pollutions To investigate A case–control study Eligible cases were lung Among non-smoking women,
R., Zhao, B., Shi, J., and Risks of lung indoor particulate was conducted in cancer patients diagnosed lung cancer was strongly
Li, Y., Swanson, M., Cancer Among matter level and Taiyuan, China, in Shanxi Tumor Hospital associated with multiple
Sheider, W., Su, J., various indoor air consisting of 399 lung between 2005 and 2007. sources of indoor air pollution
Chang, SC., Yu, S., Chinese Female pollution exposure cancer cases (164 A total of 399 cases (197 10 years ago, including heavy
Zhang, ZF. Non-smokers (2013) and to examine female non-smokers) females and 202 males) exposure to environmental
their relationships and 466 controls (218 with a response rate of tobacco smoke at work.
with risk of lung female non-smokers). 89%, and 466 controls
cancer on non- Unconditional logistic (232 females and 234
smoking women in regression models males) were recruited in
an urban Chinese were used to calculate the study. All patients
population. odds ratios and 95 % were interviewed at the
confidence intervals hospital, and all controls
after age, education, were interviewed in
annual income, and community health service
smoking adjustment. centers.
Patra, J., Bhatia, M., Exposure to Second- To investigate the A systematic literature Secondhand smoke exposure
Suraweera, W., Hand Smoke and role of second-hand search of Pubmed, is associated with an increase
Morris, S., Patra, C., the Risk of smoke (SHS) Embase, Scopus, Web in the relative risk of Latent
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Children and Adults: factor for Scholar. 18 eligible after age control and contact
A Systematic tuberculosis among studies were identified with a TB patient. There was
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Repace, JL. Secondhand Smoke Assessment of the Each area-monitored Three Pennsylvania SHS-induced heart disease
in Pennsylvania air pollution, casino was sampled casinos (Mohegan Sun, and lung cancer will cause an
Casinos: A Study of ventilation, and once and Philadelphia Park, and estimated 6 Pennsylvania
Nonsmokers’ nonsmokers' risk measurements for Harrah) and dose of casino workers' deaths
Exposure, Dose, and from secondhand burning cigarette secondhand smoke in 8 annually per 10000 at risk, 5-
Risk (2009) smoke in density, carbon dioxide patrons for 3 casinos (The fold the death rate from
Pennsylvania inside and outside of Meadows, Philadelphia Pennsylvania mining disasters.
casinos exempted the casinos as an Park and Presque Isle
from a statewide index of ventilation, Downs).
smoke-free and pollutant
workplace law. concentration were
obtained.
Stayner, L., Bena, Lung Cancer risk To evaluate the Estimates of relative A meta-analysis data from The meta-analysis indicated a
J., Sasco, AJ., and workplace association risk from the studies 22 studies from muitiple 24% increase in lung cancer
Smith, R., Steenland exposure to between workplace were analyzed by locations worldwide of risk among workers exposed
K., Kreuzer M., and environmental environmental fitting the data to fixed workplace environmental to environmental tobacco
Straif, K. smoke (2007) tobacco smoke and mixed effects tobacco smoke exposure smoke. A 2-fold increased risk
exposure and lung models. Analyses of and iung cancer risk. was observed for workers
cancer. highly exposed classified as being highly
workers and of the exposed to environmental
relationship between tobacco smoke. A strong
duration of exposure relationship was observed
and lung cancer were between iung cancer and
also performed. duration of exposure to
environmental tobacco smoke.
Taylor, R., Najafi F., Meta-analysis of To calculate a 55 studies are included Meta-analysis of studies A total of 55 studies, seven
and Dobson, A. studies of passive pooled estimate of in the meta-analysis, of by type of study and cohort and 48 case-control
smoking and lung relative risk of lung which, 7 are cohort continent, from 1981– studies are included in the
cancer: effects of cancer associated studies, 25 population- 2006. meta-analysis. In 45 of these
study type and with exposure to based case-control studies (82.0%) there is an
continent (2007) passive smoking in and 23 non-population- increased risk for lung cancer
non-smoking based case-control among non-smoking women.
women exposed to studies. Twenty
smoking spouses. previously published
meta-analyses are also
reviewed.
Öberg, M., Jaakkola, Worldwide burden of To estimated the The disease-specific 603,000 deaths were attributed
M., Woodward, A., disease from worldwide exposure relative risk estimates to SHS smoke in 2004. The
Peruga A., Prüss- exposure to second- to SHS smoke and and area-specific exposure caused deaths from
Ustün, A. hand smoke: a its disease burden estimates of people IHD, asthma, lung cancer, and
retrospective in children and non- exposed to SHS were lower respiratory infections.
analysis of data from smokers in 2004. calculated, with data
192 countries (2011) from 192 countries.
APPENDIX B
SMOKING HABITS OF THE POPULATION AGED 15 OR OVER IN THE EU MEMBER STATES BY SEX IN PERCENTAGE 2014.
What is Secondhand Smoke (SHS)?
SECONDHAND SMOKE IS THE SMOKE EXHALED BY

A SMOKER THAT COMES FROM A BURNING END OF
A CIGARETTE, PIPER OR CIGAR.
Most of the smoke from a SECONDHAND SMOKE IS A SERIOUS
cigarette goes directly into the HEALTH RISK
air. This is called SIDESTREAM There are approximately 600 • SHS EXPOSURE CAN INCREASE A NON-
SMOKE. Second-hand smoke ingredients in a cigarette and when SMOKER’S RISK OF GETTING LUNG CANCER BY
is the mix of the mainstream burned, it creates more than 7,000
20-30%.
smoke exhaled by the smoker chemicals. At least 69 of these DID YOU KNOW?
chemicals are poisonous and are • IT AGGREVATES ASTHMA
and the 85% side stream
smoke. known to cause CANCER. • INCREASES THE RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR 40% of children, 33% of
male non-smokers, and
Secondhand smoke has been AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES SUCH AS 35% of female non-
classified as a human lung CORONARY HEART DISEASE, CHRONIC smokers were exposed to
carcinogen since 1993. secondhand smoke
OBSTRUCTIVE DISEASE AND STROKE. exposure worldwide.
“There is NO SAFE LEVEL to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke

Exposure”
IF YOU ARE A SMOKER ONLINE SOURCES :
IF YOU ARE A NON-SMOKER
AT HOME http://www.publichealth.hscn
• Let the smokers know to not smoke i.net/
Make your home smoke -free. If you smoke, do it around do. //www.ashscotland.org.uk
outside and ask others to smoke outside too. • Make your home and car smoke-free www.lung.org
zones.
WHEN YOU’RE OUT • Try to keep away from smoky places or
people who are smoking.
It is against the law to smoke in enclosed and • Tell your family and friends that you
substantially enclosed public places. This will help want to protect your family and ask for
reduce exposure to SHS. their support.
IN THE CAR
Smoking in confined spaces like in the car creates a
very polluted environment. If you smoke, do it
QUIT!
before you set off, take a smoke break on a longer
journey.
The best way to protect
AT WORK
everyone from tobacco
Leaflet Made By:
Research shows smokers smoke less when it is
banned in the workplace. This also protects the
smoke is to give up Rowena Batnag
And
health of both smokers and non -smokers. smoking. Junu Shrestha

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Bachelor’s Thesis

Degree programme in Nursing

Rowena Batnag and Junu Shrestha

TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Degree programme in Nursing

2018 | 55 pages, 16 pages in appendices

Rowena Batnag and Junu Shrestha

EFFECTS OF PASSIVE SMOKING ON NON-

Degree Programme in Nursing

2018 | 55 sivua, 16 liitesivua

Rowena Batnag ja Junu Shrestha

PASSIIVISEN TUPAKOINNIN VAIKUTUKSET

Miljoonat ihmiset altistuvat passiiviselle tupakoinnille vuosittain. Koska passiivisen tupakoinnin

Kirjallisuuteen perustuvaa lähestymistapaa hyödynnettiin keräämällä yhteen aiheeseen liittyviä

Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittivat, että tupakansavulle altistuminen altistaa passiivisen tupakoitsijan

Sairaanhoitajat voivat toimia aktiivisesti työpaikalla lisäämällä tietoisuutta ja kannustamalla

Passiivinen tupakointi, toistuva savu, keuhkosyöpä, sydän- ja verisuonitaudit, hengityselinten

3 PURPOSE AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS 16

4 DATA AND METHODS 17

6 ETHICS AND VALIDITY 43

ALA American Lung Association (American Lung Association 2018)

CAP Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Almirall ym. 2014)

CNA Canada Nurses’ Association (Canada Nurses’ Association 2018)

COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Johannessen ym. 2012)

EPA Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Protection Agency 2018)

ETS Environmental tobacco smoke (World Health Organization 2018)

FTC Federal Trade Commission (Federal Trade Commission 2016)

IHD Ishaemic Heart Disease (Fisher and Kraemer 2015)

SHS Secondhand smoke (World Health Organization 2018)

TBP Theory of Planned Behavior (Joseph ym. 2016)

And Human Services 2014)

WHO World Health Organization (World Health Organization 2018)

International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, the Californian Environmental

2.1 Brief History of Tobacco

2.2 Tobacco Advertising

2.3 What’s in a Cigarette?

Table 1. Chemicals in a Cigarette (American Lung Association 2018)

CHEMICALS OTHER USES

Nicotine, one of cigarette’s primary ingredients, is concluded to be as addictive as cocaine

Figure 1. Sources of Nicotine. (Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, 2011)

2.4 Prevalence of Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

Table 2. Patterns of SHS at home among non-smoking populations by socio-demographic

CHARACTERISTICS FINDINGS / PREVALENCE

3 PURPOSE AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS

The research questions for this project were:

1. What are the effects of passive smoking on non-smokers?

2. What is the role of nurses in the control of second-hand smoke exposure?

4 DATA AND METHODS

4.1 Review Method

Literature review is a systematic investigation of knowledge that is available on a certain

4.2 Data Collection

Table 3. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Table 4. Overview of literature search.

DATABASE KEYWORDS NUMBER OF HITS PICKS ARTICLES

CINAHL Passive 23 2 Leung ym. 2010

4.3 Data Analysis

5.1 Effects of Passive Smoking on Non-smokers

b. Breast Cancer - Insufficient but suggestive evidence links

c. Cervical Cancer - Inadequate evidence to infer the presence

Tobacco Cessation The 5 A's of Brief 35 Minute Tobacco Intervention Environmental Tobacco Smoke