PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ritesh Mistry
AU  - Mangesh S Pednekar
AU  - William J McCarthy
AU  - Ken Resnicow
AU  - Sharmila A Pimple
AU  - Hsing-Fang Hsieh
AU  - Gauravi A Mishra
AU  - Prakash C Gupta
TI  - Compliance with point-of-sale tobacco control policies and student tobacco use in Mumbai, India
AID  - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054290
DP  - 2019 Mar 01
TA  - Tobacco Control
PG  - 220--226
VI  - 28
IP  - 2
4099  - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/2/220.short
4100  - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/2/220.full
SO  - Tob Control2019 Mar 01; 28
AB  - Background We measured how student tobacco use and psychological risk factors (intention to use and perceived ease of access to tobacco products) were associated with tobacco vendor compliance with India’s Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act provisions regulating the point-of-sale (POS) environment.Methods We conducted a population-based cross-sectional survey of high school students (n=1373) and tobacco vendors (n=436) in school-adjacent communities (n=26) in Mumbai, India. We used in-class self-administered questionnaires of high school students, face-to-face interviews with tobacco vendors and compliance checks of tobacco POS environments. Logistic regression models with adjustments for clustering were used to measure associations between student tobacco use, psychological risk factors and tobacco POS compliance.Results Compliance with POS laws was low overall and was associated with lower risk of student current tobacco use (OR 0.48, 95% CI 0.26 to 0.91) and current smokeless tobacco use (OR 0.40, 95% CI 0.21 to 0.77), when controlling for student-level and community-level tobacco use risk factors. Compliance was not associated with student intention to use tobacco (OR 0.50; 95% CI 0.21 to 1.18) and perceived ease of access to tobacco (OR 0.73; 95% CI 0.53 to 1.00).Conclusions Improving vendor compliance with tobacco POS laws may reduce student tobacco use. Future studies should test strategies to improve compliance with tobacco POS laws, particularly in low-income and middle-income country settings like urban India.