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Chunk #7 — 2. Methods — 2.1. Participants

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Smoke-free policies in drinking venues predict transitions in alcohol use disorders in a longitudinal U.S. sample.
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Analyses were restricted to participants who lived in states without both smoke-free bar and restaurant legislation at Wave I. This included 16,555 participants from DC and 41 states without such policies at Wave II and 3208 participants from eight states that adopted comprehensive smoke-free bar and restaurant legislation between Waves I and II (Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington; ANR, 2012). California adopted comprehensive smoke-free legislation prior to Wave I and thus the 3932 participants from California were excluded from the current analyses. The final sample was limited to participants who reported any past-year alcohol use at Wave I (n = 19,763). It is important to note that of the eight states that implemented smoke-free bar and restaurant legislation between Waves I and II, five implemented smoke-free work place legislation. Supplementary analyses evaluating the impact of workplace bans did not substantively change the pattern of findings and this was not included as a covariate in the final models.