Smoking behaviors and attitudes in the workplace

The effect of work-site environment on smokers' attitudes toward,satisfaction with, intentions to changes, and actual changein smoking behavior was investigated. Data were collected initiallyon 836 subjects who represented a 10% random sample of individualsparticipating in an ongoing health promotion project for stateemployees. This group was resurveued a year later. Age, race,sex, income and peer pressure were among the significant variablesin predicting outcomes of number of cigarettes smoked, satisfactionwith smoking, intent to change smoking behavior, and changein smoking behavior.