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Title: Young people's exposure to point-of-sale tobacco products and promotions
Author(s): Stead, Martine
Eadie, Douglas
MacKintosh, Anne Marie
Best, Catherine
Miller, Martine
Haseen, Farhana
Pearce, Jamie
Tisch, Catherine
MacDonald, Laura
MacGregor, Andy
Amos, Amanda
van der Sluijs, Winfried
Frank, John W
Haw, Sally
Contact Email: martine.stead@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Tobacco
Marketing
Point-of-sale
Exposure
Young people
Policy
Issue Date: Jul-2016
Date Deposited: 6-Jun-2016
Citation: Stead M, Eadie D, MacKintosh AM, Best C, Miller M, Haseen F, Pearce J, Tisch C, MacDonald L, MacGregor A, Amos A, van der Sluijs W, Frank JW & Haw S (2016) Young people's exposure to point-of-sale tobacco products and promotions. Public Health, 136, pp. 48-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2016.03.032
Abstract: Objectives  Point of sale (POS) displays are one of the most important forms of tobacco marketing still permitted in many countries. Reliable methods for measuring exposure to such displays are needed in order to assess their potential impact, particularly on smoking attitudes and uptake among young people. In this study we use a novel method for evaluating POS exposure based on young people's use of retail outlets and recall of tobacco displays and observational data on the characteristics of displays.  Study design  Observational audit of retail outlets (n=96) and school-based pupil survey (n=1482) in four Scottish communities reflecting different levels of social deprivation and urbanisation, conducted in 2013 before legislation to remove POS displays was implemented in supermarkets.  Methods  Measures were taken of: visibility and placement of tobacco displays; internal and external advertising; display unit size, branding and design; visibility of pack warnings; proximity of tobacco products to products of potential interest to children and young people; pupils' self-reported frequency of visiting retail outlets; and pupils' recall of tobacco displays. Variation in POS exposure across social and demographic groups was assessed.  Results  Displays were highly visible within outlets and, in over half the stores, from the public footway outside. Tobacco products were displayed in close proximity to products of interest to children (e.g. confectionery, in 70% of stores). Eighty percent of pupils recalled seeing tobacco displays, with those from deprived areas more likely to recall displays in small shops. When confectioners, tobacconists and newsagents (CTNs) and grocery/convenience stores (two of the outlet types most often visited by young people) were examined separately, average tobacco display unit sizes were significantly larger in those outlets in more deprived areas.  Conclusions  POS displays remain a key vector in most countries for advertising tobacco products, and it is important to develop robust measures of exposure. The data reported in this paper provide a baseline measure for evaluating the efficacy of legislation prohibiting such displays.
DOI Link: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.03.032
Rights: © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Royal Society for Public Health. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Licence URL(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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