Brennan Emily, Ilchenko Elizaveta, Scollo Michelle, Durkin Sarah J, Wakefield Melanie A
Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Tob Control. 2022 May 3. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057122.
There is growing international interest in a goal once considered unthinkable: phasing out the retail sales of smoked tobacco products. In this study, we examined public support for phasing out sales and specific measures for moving towards a phase-out among a nationally representative sample of Australian adults.
In December 2019, we used a probability-based online panel, Life in Australia™, to survey n=1939 Australian adults (n=1874 included in analyses due to missing data).
Almost two-thirds of respondents thought it would be 'a good thing' if there came a time when it was no longer legal to sell cigarettes in shops in Australia and only 16.7% thought it would be 'a bad thing'. After the concept of a phase-out was defined as removing a product from the Australian market over a set period, such as 5 years, but still allowing purchases online from overseas companies, 50.7% indicated support for such a phase-out and 61.8% thought it should happen within 10 years. Support was greater for specific measures such as licensing tobacco retailers (75.3%) and restricting sales to places children cannot enter (76.3%). Support tended to be consistent across demographic subgroups but was stronger among never and former smokers than among current smokers.
There has been little public discussion in Australia about the goal of 1 day phasing out the retail sale of cigarettes. It is notable that such policies are reasonably well supported by the Australian public, with only minority opposition.
曾经被认为不可想象的一个目标正日益引起国际关注：逐步淘汰烟草制品的零售。在本研究中，我们在具有全国代表性的澳大利亚成年人样本中，调查了公众对逐步淘汰销售的支持情况以及朝着逐步淘汰迈进的具体措施。
2019年12月，我们使用基于概率的在线面板“澳大利亚生活”对1939名澳大利亚成年人进行了调查（由于数据缺失，分析纳入了1874人）。
近三分之二的受访者认为，如果澳大利亚商店不再合法销售香烟，那将是“一件好事”，只有16.7%的人认为这将是“一件坏事”。在将逐步淘汰的概念定义为在一段设定的时间内（如5年）将一种产品从澳大利亚市场移除，但仍允许从海外公司在线购买后，50.7%的人表示支持这种逐步淘汰，61.8%的人认为应该在10年内实现。对诸如烟草零售商许可（75.3%）和限制在儿童无法进入的场所销售（76.3%）等具体措施的支持率更高。各人口亚组的支持倾向较为一致，但从不吸烟者和曾经吸烟者的支持率高于当前吸烟者。
在澳大利亚，关于有朝一日逐步淘汰香烟零售这一目标几乎没有公开讨论。值得注意的是，此类政策得到了澳大利亚公众的合理支持，只有少数人反对。
