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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2012 Mar;21(2):147–153. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050416

Table 2. Assessment of tobacco marketing exposure and other intermediate outcomes of marketing regulation in multicountry surveillance surveys.

Exposure measures GYTS31 GATS32 ITC-433
Advertising (direct)
 Television/radio 2* 0 1
 Magazine/newspaper 2 0 1
 Outdoor 2 0 1
 Direct mail 0 1 1
 Point of sale, advertising 0 1 1
 Point of sale, pack displays 0 0 1
Advertising (indirect)
 Branded merchandise 1 1 1
 Free tobacco products 1 1 1
 Sponsored events 0 0 1
Price promotion
 Coupons 0 1 1
 Discounts 0 1 1
 Gifts with purchase 0 1 1
Other intermediate outcomes
 Difficulty of quitting 2 0 2
 Perceived access 0 0 0
 Perceived approval 0 0 0
 Perceived prevalence 0 0 0
 Positive outcome expectations 2 0 2
 Receptivity to tobacco marketing 0 0 0

Cell entries: 0=unmeasured, 1=discrete measure, 2=frequency measure.

*

Television only.

Radio only

Measured for a subset of countries.

GYTS, Global Youth Tobacco Survey; GATS, Global Adult Tobacco Survey; ITC-4, International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey (Australia, Canada, UK, USA).