Smokefree signage at New Zealand racecourses and sports facilities with outdoor stands.

George Thomson, Nick Wilson

The New Zealand medical journal 2017 Oct 27

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Smokefree signage is crucial to the implementation of smokefree policies for outdoor venues and for facilitating smoking denormalisation. Such signage helps to communicate the expected norms for not smoking at venues. Therefore, we aimed to identify such signage at racecourses and sports facilities that had outdoor stands. We surveyed the entrances of 25 racecourse and 25 sport facilities with outdoor stands, across New Zealand. There were smokefree signs at the main entrances of 40% of the sports facilities with outdoor stands, and at 16% of the 25 other entrances. None of the horse/greyhound racecourses had smokefree signage at any of their entrances.

Citation

George Thomson, Nick Wilson. Smokefree signage at New Zealand racecourses and sports facilities with outdoor stands. The New Zealand medical journal. 2017 Oct 27;130(1464):80-86