Observed frequency and rates of smoking at selected Vancouver parks and beaches before and after a smokefree law
| Prelaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) August 2010 | 1-week postlaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) September 2010 | 1-month postlaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) October 2010 | 8-month postlaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) May 2011 | 9-month postlaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) 2 July 2011 | 10-month postlaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) 31 July 2011 | 12-month postlaw smoking rate* (number of persons smoking/population in venue) September 2011 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parks | |||||||
| Victory Square | 64.0 (16/25) | 28.3 (17/60) | 36.4 (16/44) | 4.7 (4/85) | 25.7 (19/74) | 25.9 (22/85) | 9.9 (18/182) |
| Victoria Park | 19.6 (10/51) | 15.8 (18/114) | 14.0 (16/114) | 23.8 (10/42) | 15.4 (22/143) | 3.9 (32/812) | 7.4 (13/176) |
| Oppenheimer Park | 31.3 (15/48) | 28.1 (18/64) | 16.7 (9/54) | 16.8 (17/101) | 12.2 (12/98) | 0.5 (7/1523) | 8.3 (24/289) |
| Parks subtotal | 33.1 (41/124) | 22.3 (53/238) | 19.3 (41/212) | 13.6 (31/228) | 16.8 (53/315) | 2.5 (61/2420) | 8.5 (55/647) |
| Beaches | |||||||
| English Bay | 2.1 (15/700) | 5.6 (11/197) | 3.2 (15/467) | 1.8 (24/1350) | 1.4 (19/1391) | 0.6 (31/4787) | 1.8 (25/1426) |
| Kitsilano Beach | 1.8 (9/493) | 2.9 (4/140) | 4.1 (7/172) | 2.3 (18/800) | 1.2 (11/926) | 0.5 (6/1192) | 0.5 (4/825) |
| Second Beach | 4.7 (9 /193) | 6.3 (3/48) | 6.3 (4/64) | 0.0 (0/42) | 0.0 (0/35) | 0.7 (2/274) | 0.8 (3/384) |
| Beaches subtotal | 2.3 (33/1386) | 4.7 (18/385) | 3.7 (26/703) | 1.9 (42/2192) | 1.3 (30/2352) | 0.6 (39/6253) | 1.2 (32/2635) |
| Total (parks and beaches combined) | 4.9 (74/1510) | 11.4 (71/623) | 7.3 (65/827) | 3.0 (73/2420) | 3.1 (83/2667) | 1.2 (100/8673) | 2.6 (87/3382) |
*The smoking rate at each observation time point=number of persons smoking in venue/number of persons in venue × 100.
Subtotals are shown in italics; totals are shown in bold.