REGULATORY INFLUENCES ON HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS - THE CASE OF WORKPLACE SMOKING-BANS

Abstract

Recent community‐wide health‐promotion campaigns in Australia and other industrialised countries have been concerned with reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer risk, and have focused on such behaviours as cigarette smoking, dietary choices, and exercising. Psychological research on the modification of health‐related behaviours has largely been concerned with individual learning and behaviour‐change processes, emphasising an implicit sequence of providing information, promoting motivation, and facilitating behaviour change. But governments and public‐health activists are now also sponsoring regulatory innovations which directly influence health‐related behaviours. Bans on cigarette smoki..