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Tobacco point-of-sale advertising in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina

OBJECTIVES: To determine tobacco point of sale advertising prevalence in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina. METHODS: Convenience stores (120 per city) were chosen from randomly selected blocks in low, middle and high socioeconomic neighbourhoods. To assess tobacco point of sale a...

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Autores principales: Barnoya, Joaquin, Mejia, Raul, Szeinman, Debora, Kummerfeldt, Carlos E
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2975992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20530136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2009.031898
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author Barnoya, Joaquin
Mejia, Raul
Szeinman, Debora
Kummerfeldt, Carlos E
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Mejia, Raul
Szeinman, Debora
Kummerfeldt, Carlos E
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description OBJECTIVES: To determine tobacco point of sale advertising prevalence in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina. METHODS: Convenience stores (120 per city) were chosen from randomly selected blocks in low, middle and high socioeconomic neighbourhoods. To assess tobacco point of sale advertising we used a checklist developed in Canada that was translated into Spanish and validated in both countries studied. Analysis was conducted by neighbourhood and store type. RESULTS: All stores sold cigarettes and most had tobacco products in close proximity to confectionery. In Guatemala, 60% of stores had cigarette ads. High and middle socioeconomic status neighbourhood stores had more indoor cigarette ads, but these differences were determined by store type: gas stations and supermarkets were more prevalent in high socioeconomic status neighbourhoods and had more indoor cigarette ads. In poorer areas, however, more ads could be seen from outside the stores, more stores were located within 100 metres of schools and fewer stores had ‘No smoking’ or ‘No sales to minors’ signs. In Argentina, 80% of stores had cigarette ads and few differences were observed by neighbourhood socioeconomic status. Compared to Guatemala, ‘No sales to minors’ signs were more prevalent in Argentina. CONCLUSIONS: Tobacco point of sale advertising is highly prevalent in these two cities of Guatemala and Argentina. An advertising ban should also include this type of advertising.
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spelling pubmed-29759922010-11-26 Tobacco point-of-sale advertising in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina Barnoya, Joaquin Mejia, Raul Szeinman, Debora Kummerfeldt, Carlos E Tob Control Brief Report OBJECTIVES: To determine tobacco point of sale advertising prevalence in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina. METHODS: Convenience stores (120 per city) were chosen from randomly selected blocks in low, middle and high socioeconomic neighbourhoods. To assess tobacco point of sale advertising we used a checklist developed in Canada that was translated into Spanish and validated in both countries studied. Analysis was conducted by neighbourhood and store type. RESULTS: All stores sold cigarettes and most had tobacco products in close proximity to confectionery. In Guatemala, 60% of stores had cigarette ads. High and middle socioeconomic status neighbourhood stores had more indoor cigarette ads, but these differences were determined by store type: gas stations and supermarkets were more prevalent in high socioeconomic status neighbourhoods and had more indoor cigarette ads. In poorer areas, however, more ads could be seen from outside the stores, more stores were located within 100 metres of schools and fewer stores had ‘No smoking’ or ‘No sales to minors’ signs. In Argentina, 80% of stores had cigarette ads and few differences were observed by neighbourhood socioeconomic status. Compared to Guatemala, ‘No sales to minors’ signs were more prevalent in Argentina. CONCLUSIONS: Tobacco point of sale advertising is highly prevalent in these two cities of Guatemala and Argentina. An advertising ban should also include this type of advertising. BMJ Group 2010-06-07 2010-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2975992/ /pubmed/20530136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2009.031898 Text en © 2010, Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode.
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Mejia, Raul
Szeinman, Debora
Kummerfeldt, Carlos E
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title_fullStr Tobacco point-of-sale advertising in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Tobacco point-of-sale advertising in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina
title_short Tobacco point-of-sale advertising in Guatemala City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires, Argentina
title_sort tobacco point-of-sale advertising in guatemala city, guatemala and buenos aires, argentina
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2975992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20530136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.2009.031898
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