{
  "abstract": "Background Many people continue to smoke despite strong policies to deter use, thus stronger regulatory measures may be required. In four high-income countries, we examined whether people who smoke would support a total ban on smoked tobacco products under two differing policy scenarios.Methods Data were from 14 363 adults (≥18) who smoked cigarettes (≥monthly) and participated in at least one of the 2018, 2020 or 2022 International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys in Australia, Canada, England and the USA. In 2018, respondents were asked whether they would support a law that totally bans smoked tobacco if the government provides smoking cessation assistance (Cessation Assistance scenario). In 2020 and 2022, respondents were asked a slightly different question as to whether they would support a law that totally bans smoked tobacco if the government encourages people who smoke to use alternative nicotine products like vaping products and nicotine replacement products instead (substitution scenario). Responses (support vs oppose/don’t know) were estimated on weighted data.Results Support was greater for the cessation assistance scenario (2018, 36.6%) than the nicotine substitution scenario (2020, 26.9%; 2022, 26.3%, both p<0.0001). In the longitudinal analysis, there was a significant scenario by country interaction effect with lower support in Canada, the USA and Australia under the substitution scenario than in the cessation scenario, but equivalent levels in England under both scenarios. The strongest correlates of support under both scenarios were planning to quit smoking within 6 months, wanting to quit smoking ‘a lot’ and recent use of nicotine replacement therapy.Conclusions Opposition to banning smoked tobacco predominates among people who smoke, but less with a cessation assistance scenario than one encouraging nicotine substitution. Wanting to quit a lot was the strongest indicator of support.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Michael Le Grande"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Ron Borland"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Shannon Gravely"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Michael Cummings"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Ann McNeill"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Psychology, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Hua H Yong"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine, Herston, Queensland, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Coral E Gartner"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Support for banning sale of smoked tobacco products among adults who smoke: findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys (2018–2022)",
  "uid": "cda718d0-2adc-595b-a02c-70602c6d4466"
}