Compliance with the smoke-free public places legislation in Nepal: A cross-sectional study from Biratnagar Metropolitan City

• Lila Bahadur Basnet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lila Bahadur Basnet, Shyam Sundar Budhathoki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Curative Service Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-8080

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• Shyam Sundar Budhathoki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lila Bahadur Basnet, Shyam Sundar Budhathoki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.budhathoki19@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8614-1087

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• Biplov Adhikari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Mulpani Primary Health Center, Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Jeevan Thapa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal

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• Bandana Neupane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nepal Health Sector Support Programme (NHSSP)/DFID, Government of Nepal Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Talibita Moses,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Sciences, Nkumba University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Meghnath Dhimal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Section, Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Ramshah Path, Kathmandu

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7176-7821

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• Paras K. Pokharel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Anup Ghimire,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Deepak Belbase,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Public Health, Sanjeevani College of Medical Sciences, Butwal, Nepal

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Sudip Khatri,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Narendra Kumar Yadav,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Koshi Hospital, Biratnagar, Nepal

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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• Richard J. Pinder

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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