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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2015 Feb 2;24(0 3):iii41–iii47. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051886

Table 3.

The Associations between tobacco control policies and quit attempts by country, gender, and weight control belief.

U.S. Canada U.K. Australia

All Male Female All Male Female All Male Female All Male Female
Prices 0.14** (0.07) [0.30] 0.03 (0.10) [0.07] 0.27*** (0.09) [0.58] 0.02 (0.05) [0.05] 0.01 (0.07) [0.02] 0.02 (0.07) [0.06] 0.10 (0.22) [0.46] 0.22 (0.31) [1.04] −0.05 (0.29) [−0.23] −0.10 (0.21) [−0.35] −0.34 (0.30) [−1.22] 0.19 (0.29) [0.65]
Price/Belief Interaction −0.15 (0.11) [−0.10] −0.10 (0.19) [−0.06] −0.25* (0.14) [−0.20] −0.00 (0.08) [−0.00] −0.06 0.04 [−0.05] 0.02 (0.10) [0.02] −0.89*** (0.33) [−1.43] −2.08*** (0.56) [−3.06] −0.06 (0.40) [−0.11] −0.06 (0.31) [−0.06] −0.19 (0.49) [−0.19] 0.06 (0.41) [0.07]

Worksite Bans 0.34 (0.39) [0.52] 0.57 (0.59) [0.90] 0.22 (0.49) [0.32] −0.32 (0.22) [−0.46] −0.75** (0.34) [−1.08] 0.10 (0.29) [0.15] 0.63 (0.45) [0.89] 0.49 (0.68) [0.70] 0.73 (0.62) [1.01] −0.12 (0.32) [−0.18] −0.68 (0.50) [−1.02] 0.49 (0.41) [0.71]
Worksite Bans/Belief Interaction −0.66 (0.48) [−0.30] −0.49 (0.82) [−0.19] −0.82 (0.58) [−0.45] −0.05 (0.33) [−0.02] 0.15 (0.54) [0.05] −0.23 (0.41) [−0.13] −0.68* (0.39) [−0.34] −1.31* (0.70) [−0.60] −0.25 (0.48) [−0.13] 0.14 (0.39) [0.06] 0.30 (0.64) [0.12] −0.22 (0.48) [−0.10]

Bar Bans 0.08 (0.20) [0.10] 0.13 (0.29) [0.16] 0.08 (0.26) [0.10] −0.17 (0.14) [−0.22] −0.28 (0.19) [−0.37] −0.01 (0.18) [−0.01] −0.26 (0.36) [−0.28] −0.31 (0.52) [−0.33] −0.23 (0.48) [−0.24] 0.19 (0.25) [0.23] 0.51 (0.37) [0.64] −0.13 (0.32) [−0.16]
Bar Bans/Belief Interaction −0.29 (0.24) [−0.11] 0.10 (0.39) [0.03] −0.69** (0.29) [−0.31] −0.01 (0.18) [−0.00] 0.18 (0.29) [0.06] −0.14 (0.22) [−0.07] −0.52 (0.38) [−0.20] −1.26 (0.97) [−0.43] −0.12 (0.44) [−0.05] 0.06 (0.34) [0.02] 0.59 (0.55) [0.20] −0.42 (0.42) [−0.17]

Restaurant Bans 0.30 (0.20) [0.45] 0.47 (0.29) [0.72] 0.16 (0.27) [0.23] 0.17 (0.24) [0.25] 0.37 (0.36) [0.55] 0.02 (0.32) [0.03] 0.10 (0.48) [0.14] 0.43 (0.71) [0.57] −0.27 (0.65) [−0.35] 0.05 (0.45) [0.07] −0.33 (0.66) [−0.53] 0.56 (0.61) [0.87]
Restaurant Bans/Belief Interaction −0.27 (0.28) [−0.12] 0.15 (0.45) [0.06] −0.67* (0.34) [−0.36] −0.07 (0.23) [−0.03] 0.13 (0.37) [0.04] −0.16 (0.28) [−0.09] −0.41 (0.46) [−0.19] −1.41 (1.12) [−0.60] 0.24 (0.55) [0.12] 0.00 0.59 [0.00] 0.62 (0.97) [0.27] −0.82 (0.75) [−0.41]

Anti-smoking Messaging 0.11 (0.21) [0.28] −0.16 (0.30) [−0.44] 0.49* (0.28) [1.23] 0.38** (0.19) [1.02] 0.44 (0.28) [1.17] 0.36 (0.26) [0.97] 0.50** (0.24) [1.33] 0.38 (0.35) [1.04] 0.57* (0.32) [1.49] 0.29** (0.15) [0.82] 0.60*** (0.22) [1.67] −0.06 (0.20) [−0.17]
Anti-smoking Messaging/Belief Interaction −0.56** (0.28) [−0.45] −0.29 (0.47) [−0.19] −0.98*** (0.35) [−0.93] −0.11 (0.26) [−0.09] 0.18 (0.42) [0.11] −0.33 (0.33) [−0.34] −0.66*** (0.20) [−0.62] −1.24*** (0.34) [−1.06] −0.24 (0.26) [−0.25] −0.05 (0.18) [−0.04] 0.21 (0.29) [0.16] −0.27 (0.23) [−0.23]

N 4266 1786 2480 5060 2216 2844 4999 2194 2805 5451 2453 2998

Note: marginal estimates (β) are reported. Robust Standard errors are in parentheses. Elasticity estimates are in square brackets. Regressions were conducted separately for each tobacco control policy.

*

0.05 < p ≤ 0.1,

**

0.01 < p ≤ 0.05,

***

p ≤ 0.01.