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- Title
Impact of point-of-sale tobacco display bans: findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey.
- Authors
Lin Li; Borland, Ron; Fong, Geoffrey T.; Thrasher, James F.; Hammond, David; Cummings, Kenneth M.
- Abstract
This study examined the impact of point-of-sale (POS) tobacco marketing restrictions in Australia and Canada, in relation to the United Kingdom and the United States where there were no such restrictions during the study period (2006-10). The data came from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey, a prospective multi-country cohort survey of adult smokers. In jurisdictions where POS display bans were implemented, smokers' reported exposure to tobacco marketing declined markedly. From 2006 to 2010, in Canada, the percentages noticing POS tobacco displays declined from 74.1 to 6.1% [adjusted odds ratio (OR)=0.26, P < 0.001]; and reported exposure to POS tobacco advertising decreased from 40.3 to 14.1% (adjusted OR=0.61, P<0.001). Similarly, in Australia, noticing of POS displays decreased from 73.9 to 42.9%. In contrast, exposure to POS marketing in the United States and United Kingdom remained high during this period. In parallel, there were declines in reported exposures to other forms of advertising/promotion in Canada and Australia, but again, not in the United States or United Kingdom. Impulse purchasing of cigarettes was lower in places that enacted POS display bans. These findings indicate that implementing POS tobacco display bans does result in lower exposure to tobacco marketing and less frequent impulse purchasing of cigarettes.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CANADA; UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States; SMOKING prevention; MARKETING; ADVERTISING; CONFIDENCE intervals; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL method; LEGAL status of sales personnel; MEDICAL cooperation; HEALTH outcome assessment; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; TOBACCO; DATA analysis; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Health Education Research, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 5, p898
- ISSN
0268-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/her/cyt058