{
  "abstract": "The risk of cancer is significantly higher among emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians and firefighters compared with the general population. 1–3 This increased risk is attributed in part to environmental exposure and hazardous situations they encounter in their line of work.1 2 Despite longstanding policies to identify and mitigate many occupational risks, one critical area remains underexplored: clinician risk based on personal behaviour, specifically smoking cigarettes (tobacco). Smoking not only compounds long-term cancer risk but also reduces the functional lung capacity clinicians need to perform duties effectively.3 4 To address this gap, we aimed to understand EMS clinician smoking prevalence and evaluate associations between workplace smoking policies and on-the-job smoking behaviour.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Research Team, National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Columbus, Ohio, USA",
        "College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Christopher B Gage"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Research Team, National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Columbus, Ohio, USA",
        "College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jacob C Kamholz"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA",
        "Research, ImageTrend Inc, Eagan, Minnesota, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jonathan R Powell"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Research Team, National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Columbus, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Shea L van den Bergh"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "College of Public Health & Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Micah L Berman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Research Team, National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Columbus, Ohio, USA",
        "College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA",
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Ashish R Panchal"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Amy Katherine Ferketich"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Reducing on-duty smoking: the role of workplace policies in emergency medical services in the United States",
  "uid": "f642f431-7a7c-5240-a68c-e7ec12d7533e"
}