Table 2.

Tobacco point-of-sale advertising prevalence. 2008

	Guatemala City, Guatemala					Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Neighbourhood socioeconomic status					Neighbourhood socioeconomic status
	All	High	Middle	Low		All	High	Middle	Low
	120	40	40	40	p*	120	40	40	40	p
Stores (%) with exterior ads	3	10	0	0	0.08	10	0	15	14	0.4
Stores (%†) with interior ads
None	40	22	48	52	<0.001	18	10	18	35	0.07
1–2	34	32	50	22		47	45	55	50
3–9	23	46	2	25		28	45	26	19
Stores (%) with interior ads that can be seen from the outside	18	10	48	47	0.005	61	91	77	72	0.1
Mean (%,SD‡) of the total percentage of space occupied in front of the client		18.28 (8.37)	13.57 (4.22)	17.37 (5.37)	0.04		21.47 (15.20)	21.94 (20.39)	26.67 (13.73)	0.5
Stores (%) with tobacco ads/products <50 cm of confectionary	60	77	38	66	0.002	52	57	28	54	0.03
Stores (%) with ‘No smoking’ signs	88	26	2	2	0.002	20	24	16	3	0.1
Stores (%) with ‘No sales to minors’ sign	8	13	2	0	0.08	57	61	66	31	0.1
Stores (%) within 100 metres of a school	63	26	70	97	<0.001	5	3	13	0	0.03

^*p Value for difference between socioeconomic status.

^†Percentages do not add up to 100% owing to rounding.

^‡%, SD: Refers to the mean and the SD of the total percentage of space that the cigarette counter occupied in front of the client.