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We interviewed 1,947 respondents from Bangladeshi households with children from the first wave (2009) of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Bangladesh Survey. 43.5% of the respondents had complete smoking restrictions at home and 39.7% were very or extremely concerned about TSP risk to children\u2019s health. Participants with lower level of education were significantly less likely to be concerned about the risk of TSP exposure to children\u2019s health and less likely to adopt complete smoking restrictions at home. Logistic regression revealed that the predictors of concern for TSP exposure risk were educational attainment of 1 to 8 years (OR = 1.94) or 9 years or more (OR = 4.07) and being a smoker (OR = 0.24). The predictors of having complete household smoking restrictions were: urban residence (OR = 1.64), attaining education of 9 years or more (OR = 1.94), being a smoker (OR = 0.40) and being concerned about TSP exposure risk to children (OR = 3.25). The findings show that a high proportion of adults with children at home smoke tobacco at home and their perceptions of risk about TSP exposure to children\u2019s health were low. These behaviours were more prevalent among rural smokers who were illiterate. There is a need for targeted intervention, customized for low educated public, on TSP risk to children\u2019s health and tobacco control policy with specific focus on smoke-free home.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph8030842","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,16]],"date-time":"2011-03-16T04:06:03Z","timestamp":1300248363000},"page":"842-860","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Socioeconomic Differences in Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Pollution (TSP) in Bangladeshi Households with Children: Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Bangladesh Survey"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Abu S.","family":"Abdullah","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, 22 Shuangyong Road, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, China"},{"name":"Department of Medicine (MISU), Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue (2nd floor), Boston, MA 02118, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sara C.","family":"Hitchman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2320-0999","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pete","family":"Driezen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nigar","family":"Nargis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Arts Building, Room 4057, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anne C.K.","family":"Quah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Geoffrey T.","family":"Fong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada"},{"name":"Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS Centre, South Tower, 101 College Street, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario M5G0A3, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Worldwide burden of disease from exposure to second-hand smoke: A retrospective analysis of data from 192 countries","volume":"6736","author":"Jaakkola","year":"2010","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"United States Department of Health and Human Services (2006). 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