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. 2018 Jan 13:tobaccocontrol-2017-053996.
doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053996. Online ahead of print.

Global evidence on the effect of point-of-sale display bans on smoking prevalence

Yanyun He  1 , Ce Shang  2 , Jidong Huang  3 , Kai-Wen Cheng  1   2 , Frank J Chaloupka  1   2
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Global evidence on the effect of point-of-sale display bans on smoking prevalence

Yanyun He et al. Tob Control. .

Abstract

Background: Since Iceland became the first country to impose a ban on point-of-sale (POS) tobacco product displays in 2001, 20 countries have implemented POS display bans as of 2016. This study examined the effect that POS display bans have on smoking prevalence.

Methods: Data were sourced from Euromonitor International and the WHO MPOWER package for 2007-2014 from 77 countries worldwide. generalised linear models with country and year fixed effects were estimated to analyse the effect of POS display bans on smoking prevalence.

Results: Having a POS display ban reduced overall adult daily smoking, male smoking and female smoking by about 7%, 6% and 9%, respectively.

Conclusions: Having a POS display ban is likely to reduce smoking prevalence and generate public health benefits.

Keywords: advertising and promotion; global health; public policy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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