Table 3.
Opinions of Retailers on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Tobacco Regulator
| Total (N = 700)a |
Stores in African- American neighborhoods (N = 200)a |
Stores in non-African- American neighborhoods (N = 500)a |
Probability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covariate | N | Row % | N | Row % | N | Row % | |
| FDA trustworthy | .03* | ||||||
| Yes | 417 | 60.1 | 112 | 56.3 | 305 | 61.6 | |
| No | 107 | 15.4 | 42 | 21.1 | 65 | 13.1 | |
| Do not know | 170 | 24.5 | 45 | 22.6 | 125 | 25.3 | |
| FDA right to regulate tobacco | .52 | ||||||
| Yes | 462 | 67.7 | 137 | 69.5 | 325 | 67.0 | |
| No | 220 | 32.3 | 60 | 30.5 | 160 | 33.0 | |
| Reasons that make it difficult to follow FDA and government tobacco control rulesa | |||||||
| No access to educational materials | 142 | 20.3 | 39 | 19.6 | 103 | 20.6 | .76 |
| Customers want singles/samples | 106 | 15.2 | 32 | 16.1 | 74 | 14.8 | .68 |
| Do not know the rules | 87 | 12.5 | 37 | 18.6 | 50 | 10.0 | .002* |
| Do not understand the rules | 47 | 6.7 | 22 | 11.0 | 25 | 5.0 | .004* |
| Received pressure from tobacco distributors that come to store | 27 | 3.9 | 10 | 5.0 | 17 | 3.4 | .32 |
| Tobacco companies encourage retailer not to follow the FDA rules | 12 | 1.7 | 7 | 3.5 | 5 | 1.0 | .04*a |
| Receives too much information from different sources that are confusing | 61 | 8.7 | 17 | 8.5 | 44 | 88 | .91 |
| Information is not offered in the language understood by retailer | 54 | 7.7 | 20 | 10.1 | 34 | 6.8 | .19 |
| Other | 18 | 2.6 | 8 | 4.0 | 10 | 2.0 | .13 |
| None of the above | 328 | 47.0 | 84 | 42.2 | 244 | 48.9 | .11 |
| These sources of information could help retailers follow FDA and government tobacco control rulesa | |||||||
| Educational materials from FDA | 344 | 49.3 | 97 | 48.7 | 247 | 49.5 | .86 |
| Trainings/webinars | 210 | 30.0 | 61 | 30.7 | 149 | 29.9 | .84 |
| FDA enforcement of the rules | 142 | 20.3 | 41 | 20.6 | 101 | 20.2 | .91 |
| Learning more about what happens if I do not follow the rules | 191 | 27.3 | 59 | 29.7 | 132 | 26.5 | .39 |
| Checklists or posters with the rules by the checkout counter | 307 | 44.0 | 92 | 46.2 | 215 | 43.1 | .45 |
| Other | 18 | 2.6 | 3 | 1.5 | 15 | 3.0 | .43b |
| None of the above | 78 | 11.1 | 13 | 6.5 | 65 | 13.0 | .014* |
| Preferred language of information explaining FDA tobacco rules | .002* | ||||||
| English | 382 | 54.7 | 117 | 58.8 | 265 | 53.4 | |
| Spanish | 127 | 18.1 | 40 | 20.1 | 87 | 17.5 | |
| Korean | 66 | 9.4 | 19 | 9.6 | 47 | 9.5 | |
| Armenian | 9 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 8 | 1.6 | |
| Arabic | 8 | 1.1 | 5 | 2.5 | 3 | 0.6 | |
| Russian | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Other | 38 | 5.4 | 13 | 6.5 | 25 | 5.0 | |
| Refuse to answer | 64 | 9.2 | 4 | 2.0 | 60 | 12.1 | |
*
p ≤ .05
Note.
a:
May not sum to column total due to missing values.
b:
Indicates a Fishers exact p-value.