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"It looks like an adult sweetie shop" : point-of-sale tobacco display exposure and brand awareness in Scottish secondary school students

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Date
10/2016
Author
van der Sluijs, Winfried
Haseen, Farhana
Miller, Martine
MacGregor, Andy
Sharp, Clare
Amos, Amanda
Best, Catherine
Stead, Martine
Eadie, Douglas
Pearce, Jamie
Frank, John
Haw, Sally
Keywords
Smoking
Youth
Point-of-sale displays
Tobacco promotion
RA Public aspects of medicine
NDAS
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Abstract
Introduction: As further restrictions have been placed on tobacco advertising and promotions, point of sale (PoS) displays of cigarettes in shops have become an increasingly important source of young people’s exposure to tobacco products. This study explored the relationship between PoS displays of cigarettes and brand awareness among secondary school students in Scotland. Methods: Cross-sectional school surveys (n=1406) and focus groups (n=86) were conducted with S2 (13-14yrs) and S4 (15-16yrs) students in four schools of differing socioeconomic status in 2013, prior to the PoS display ban in large shops. Adjusted negative binomial regression analysis examined associations between brand awareness and exposure variables (visiting tobacco retailers, noticing displays of tobacco products). Results: Students visiting small shops more frequently (RRR 1.19, 95% CI 1.01-1.41) and those who noticed cigarette displays in small shops (RRR 1.24 95% CI 1.03-1.51) and large supermarkets (RRR 1.15 95% CI 1.01 -1.30) had higher brand awareness. The focus groups supported these findings. Participants described PoS tobacco displays as being eye-catching, colourful and potentially attractive to young people. Conclusions: This mixed-methods study showed that higher cigarette brand awareness was significantly associated with regularly visiting small shops and noticing PoS displays in small and large shops, even when students’ smoking status, smoking in their social networks, leisure activities and demographics were included as confounding variables. This highlights the importance of PoS displays of tobacco products in increasing brand awareness, which is known to increase youth smoking susceptibility, and thus the importance of implementing PoS display bans in all shops.
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van der Sluijs , W , Haseen , F , Miller , M , MacGregor , A , Sharp , C , Amos , A , Best , C , Stead , M , Eadie , D , Pearce , J , Frank , J & Haw , S 2016 , ' "It looks like an adult sweetie shop" : point-of-sale tobacco display exposure and brand awareness in Scottish secondary school students ' , Nicotine & Tobacco Research , vol. 18 , no. 10 , pp. 1981-1988 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw032
Publication
Nicotine & Tobacco Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw032
ISSN
1462-2203
Type
Journal article
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© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8787

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