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Tobacco point-of-sale advertising in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina and compliance with the new tobacco advertising restrictions
  1. Daniel J Minter1,
  2. Raul Mejia2,3,
  3. Ignacio Salas1,
  4. James Thrasher4,5,
  5. Eliseo J Pérez-Stable6
  1. 1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
  2. 2Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES), Argentina
  3. 3Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  4. 4Department of Health Promotion, Education & Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
  5. 5Departamento de Investigación sobre Tabaco, Centro de Investigaciones en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Púbica, Cuernavaca, Mexico
  6. 6National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Daniel J Minter, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; daniel.minter{at}ucsf.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052870

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    Background

    Despite increased awareness of the health threat posed by tobacco use, Latin America continues to experience high smoking rates. Argentina is no exception, where an estimated 22.1% of adults were smokers in 2012.1 Prior to 2011, few limitations were placed on the advertisement of tobacco products in Argentina, and any restrictions were largely self-imposed by the tobacco companies.2

    On 14 June 2011, Argentina enacted the ‘National Law of Tobacco Control: Law 26.687’. This law provides 42 articles that address tobacco advertising, packaging, product composition, sale/distribution, secondhand smoke, and preventive education. Notably, it largely prohibits all forms of tobacco advertisements except for those indoors at the point of sale (PoS) (table 1).3 Unfortunately it is unclear how many convenience stores are compliant with its provisions.

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    Table 1

    Compliance with Tobacco Advertising Legislation in 137 convenience stores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014

    Methods

    To investigate the compliance with the new restrictions, we surveyed all convenience stores (n=137) found in an 8 by 7 block area of Buenos Aires from July to August of 2014. This area was selected due …

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    • The contents and views in this manuscript are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent the views of the National Institutes of Health or any of the sponsoring organisations and agencies of the US government.

    • Contributors DJM was involved in the design of the study, participated in the data collection and analysis, and wrote the manuscript. He approved the final version to be published and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work. RM was involved in the design of the study, served as an advisor in the data analysis, and revised the manuscript. He approved the final version to be published and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work. IS was involved in the design of the study, participated in the data collection and analysis, and revised the manuscript. He approved the final version to be published and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work. JT was involved in the design of the study, served as an advisor in the data analysis, and revised the manuscript. He approved the final version to be published and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work. EJP-S was involved in the design of the study, served as an advisor in the data analysis, and revised the manuscript. He approved the final version to be published and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

    • Funding This work was supported by the University of California San Francisco ‘Resource Allocation Program for Trainees’. This research received did not receive any additional support from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.