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After “Law for the Prevention of the Harms of Tobacco Products” introduced on November 7, 1996 in Turkey, it was revised on the basis of the previous law on January 3, 2008 and was announced as “smoke-free air zone policy”. Thus the new implementation, inspired by the Spanish law, put an end to isolated smoking areas. As of May 19, 2009, indoor smoking was strictly banned in public institutions. Later on this was expanded for all business organizations in the wake of July 19, 2009.
Teachers and school administrators have a relatively negative perception on smoke-free regulation in terms of their smoking habit (Fidan, Sezer, Demirel, Kara and Ünlü, 2006). Wold, Torsheim, Currie, and Roberts (2004) revealed that school managers and teachers keep on smoking in the school zone, especially outside the school building in seven European countries so that they legitimize smoking addiction in front of their pupils.From the viewpoint of teachers, Gözütok (1999) showed that when school administrators and teachers ranked descendingly 34 non-ethical behaviors for teachers, “smoking attitude in front of students” seems rather an admissible behavior and took the 30th place.
Likewise, Güçlü (2010) cited that the research center of Democratic Educators Union declared that on account of the smoke-free law teachers set a bad example for pupils by smoking right outside the schoolyard.It is obvious that teachers and school managers as cigarette smokers are not suitable role models in education environment. As a matter of fact, the most important point determining the compliance with legal enforcement rely on the teacher and school managers’ perception on the smoke-free law so that it would be able to estimate how the policy can attain its “smoke-free, tobacco-free school” goal.The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Ferré, Moyer and Nobiling’s Attitudes Towards Smoking Compliance Questionnaire released as part of Live Free- Tobacco Free Smoke Free Survey behalf on South Illiniois University
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