[[alternative]]Effects of a smoke-free restaurant policy on employees’ behaviour of anti-smoking and its influential determinants

[[abstract]]The main purpose of this study were to investigate the implementation of smoking-restriction policies in the restaurants and also to explore the effects of different policies on employees’ behaviour of anti-smoking and its influential determinants.Totally, there were 69 restaurants, including 16 identified smoke-free restaurants, with 232 workers in Yun-lin Country in the sample. The main findings were as follows： 1.The identifiable smoke-free restaurants performed better implementation and compliance willingness to the smoke-free poliy than other restaurants. 2.There was significant correlation between behaviour of anti-smoking and demographic variables, Predisposing factors, Reforcing factors, and enabling factors. 3.There were significant different effects on subjects’ behaviour of anti-smoking and its influential determinants with different smoking-restriction policies, and the workers in the identifiable smoke-free restaurants performed best behaviour of anti-smoking. 4.Significant predictors included self-efficacy, support emviornment, smoker, awareness of ETS, and perceived benefits, the totally variance explained was 59.8% for behaviour of anti-smoking. This study provides clear evidence that a smoke-free restaurant policy has been effective at increasing employees’ behaviour of anti-smoking. It’s sugguested that educational campaigns targeted to workers should enhance their self-efficacy and establish a totally support emviornment to anti-smoking.