Table 3.

Associations between media attention (implementation campaign and newspaper coverage) and post-ban support for smoke-free bars and restaurants and post-ban SHS harm awareness (correlation coefficients)

	Support smoke-free bars and restaurants	SHS harm awareness
Exposure to implementation campaign	0.00	0.12**
Exposure to newspaper coverage about the ban	−0.09*	0.01
Ratio of coverage about health aspects and economic aspects‡	0.11**	0.03
Positive newspaper coverage about the ban	−0.07	−0.02
Negative newspaper coverage about the ban	0.02	0.00
Mixed or neutral newspaper coverage about the ban	0.09*	0.04

^‡A higher ratio means relatively more coverage about health aspects than economic aspects

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01