DEVELOPING A BRIEF MEASURE OF SMOKING IN THE HOME - DESCRIPTION AND PRELIMINARY EVALUATION

We describe a self-report measure of household smoking exposure and it s relationship to ambient nicotine levels as measured by a passive nic otine monitor. Thirty-nine participants placed a passive nicotine moni tor in their home for a 7-day period and completed a retrospective hou sehold smoking questionnaire. The composite index from the household s moking questionnaire was strongly correlated with air nicotine concent ration (r =.74, p <.01). The household smoking questionnaire appears t o be a convenient low-response cost method of assessing indoor smoke e xposure. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.