Table 2 Interview guide for residents and key informants 

Residents

Background information

 1. Please tell me about the people you live with and your/their smoking habits

 2. Please tell me about your experiences with secondhand smoke at home

 3. Do you think secondhand smoke has affected you or your family? Please describe

 4. Do you think SHS affects health or wellbeing in any way? Please describe

Questions for households with a smoker

 5. Do the smoker or other household members ever try to minimise the SHS in the home?

 6. How do the household members feel about the person’s smoking habit?

 7. Have neighbours ever approached you or anyone in your household about secondhand smoke? Please describe your experience

 8. What are your views on socially responsible smoking in the residential setting?

Questions for residents affected by SHS drift from neighbours

 9. Please describe your experience of SHS going into your home from other units

 10. How do you minimise SHS from your neighbours going into your home? Does it work?

 11. Have you tried approaching your smoking neighbours about the issue? Why (not)?

 12. Are there other ways in which you tried to solve the issue? What was your experience?

 13. What are your views on socially responsible smoking in the residential setting?

Key informants

 1. Please tell me more about your experiences with the residential secondhand smoke issue

 2. What are your views on this issue? How do you think it affects people?

 3. Do you think the residential SHS issue has changed following the COVID-19 pandemic?

 4. How do people deal with the issue of residential SHS? What are your views on this?

 5. What are your views on socially responsible smoking in the residential setting?