Helen Darling

Is exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in the home related to daily smoking among youth

U sing m ulti-stage cluster sam pling, 141eligible schools from six geog raphical regions w ere random lyselected and 82 ag reed to participate (response rate 58.2% ). S choolclasses w ere random ly selected, producing 3,434 students (m eanage 15.0 years), 51.7% m ale and 15.4% self-identified M aori.P robability w eights w ere assigned at the individual student lev el.In T able 1 w e present odds ratios for daily sm oking accordingto hom e S H S exposure. S tudents w hose response to the questionOH ow often do you sm oke now ?O w as Oat least once a dayO w ereclassified as Odaily sm okersO (12.7% ). S H S exposure w as m eas-ured by responses to the question ODuring the past sev en day s, onh ow m any days have people sm oked around you in your ow nhom eO. O verall, 43.8% reported S H S exposure at hom e, 17.7%on all seven da ys.U nivariable logistic reg ression m odels dem onstrated a cleardose-response effect (see T able 1). N o interaction effects w erefound betw een S H S and sex, ethnicity (M aori vs. non-M aori),and school ye ar. T here wa s no evidence that exposure to SHSdiffered by age, sex or ethnicity.S tudy lim itations include the cross-sectional design and inabilityto identify precisely w ho, in the household, smoke d. N ev erthe-o

Sponsorship and fund-raising in New Zealand schools: implications for health

Objective: To examine school participation in sponsorship, incentive and fundraising initiatives and to describe feedback about potential health implications and possible solutions from key stakeholders in the health and education sectors.