Table 2

Support for retail tobacco control interventions

	Mean support or opposition*† (95% CI)
Intervention	Daily smokers (n=269)	Occasional smokers (n=75)	Former smokers (n=62)	Non-smokers (n=340)	Total‡ (n=484)
Policy introduced in July 2012
Removing tobacco products from view in shops	−0.89 (−1.27 to −0.51)	0.97^a (0.23 to 1.72)	1.89^a (0.98 to 2.79)	3.50 (3.24 to 3.76)	2.61 (2.34 to 2.90)
Potential retail interventions
No tobacco products sold within 500 m of a school	0.46 (0.09 to 0.83)	1.69^a (0.87 to 2.52)	2.32^a (1.45 to 3.19)	4.03 (3.82 to 3.44)	3.25 (3.00 to 3.50
Shops selling tobacco products required to sell products that help smokers quit	0.72^a (0.39 to 1.06)	1.29^a,b (0.62 to 1.97)	2.60^b,c (1.87 to 3.32)	3.40^c (3.17 to 3.64)	2.86 (2.63 to 3.10)
Shops selling tobacco products required to be licensed	−0.86 (−1.24 to −0.48)	1.41^a (0.64 to 2.18)	1.85^a (0.98 to 2.73)	3.38 (3.11 to 3.65)	2.54 (2.27 to 2.83)
Reducing the number of stores selling tobacco products	−2.28 (−2.60 to 1.95)	1.20^a (0.45 to 1.95)	2.05^a (1.24 to 2.86)	3.52 (3.27 to 3.77)	2.47 (2.18 to 2.76)
No tobacco products sold where alcohol is sold	−1.78 (−2.10 to −1.45)	0.20 (−0.58 to 0.98)	1.77 (0.92 to 2.62)	3.18 (2.92 to 3.44)	2.23 (1.95 to 2.51)

*On a scale from −5='Strongly oppose’ to +5='Strongly support’, with a midpoint of 0='Neither oppose nor support’.
†Differences between means tested using Tamahane's T2 posthoc test, which does not assume equal group variances. All differences between means are significant at p<0.05 except those denoted by the same superscript.
‡Overall mean calculated using data weighted so that proportion of smokers matches the population smoking prevalence.