Developing a brief measure of smoking in the home: Description and preliminary evaluation

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