Tobacco signage by store type
| n | Having ‘no sales to minors’ signs (%*) | Having signs indicating sale of tobacco (%*) | Advertisements | Warning messages | |||
| n (%*) | Mean (SD)† | n (%*) | Mean (SD)† | ||||
| Tobacco specialty | 450 | 0 (0.0) | 241 (53.6) | 170 (37.8) | 3.5 (0.2) | 9 (2.0) | 2.3 (0.4) |
| Kiosk | 720 | 4 (0.6) | 136 (18.9) | 23 (3.2) | 4.0 (1.4) | 2 (0.3) | 1.0 (0.0)‡ |
| Convenience store | 336 | 10 (3.0) | 42 (12.5) | 4 (1.2) | 5.5 (2.4) | 12 (3.6) | 1.6 (0.1) |
| Grocery | 47 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (4.3) | 0 (0.0) | – | 0 (0.0) | – |
| Mega Supermarket | 7 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 1 (14.3) | 7.0 (–) | 1 (14.3) | 1.0 (–) |
| Market | 5 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | – | 0 (0.0) | – |
| Vegetable and fruit store | 30 | 0 (0.0) | 8 (26.7) | 3 (10.0) | 1.3 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | – |
| Grain store | 9 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (22.2) | 0 (0.0) | – | 0 (0.0) | – |
| Other store | 35 | 0 (0.0) | 27 (77.1) | 2 (5.7) | 1.0 (0.0)‡ | 1 (2.9) | 1.0 (–) |
| Total | 1639 | 14 (0.9) | 459 (28.0) | 203 (12.4) | 3.5 (3.5) | 25 (1.5) | 1.8 (0.9) |
| p Value§ | 0.046 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.717 | 0.335 | –¶ | |
↵* Row percentages.
↵† The calculation was based on the stores with advertisements or warning messages.
↵‡ No variation of numbers of messages/advertisements in two stores (both of them have one message/advertisement).
↵§ Testing the differences between tobacco specialty stores and all other stores as a group with χ2 tests and analysis of variance.
↵¶ The number of stores to compare the numbers of warning messages is very small.