Included newspaper articles and broadcasts and numbers mentioning each theme
| News outlet and genre | Total articles* | Constructs of prisoners and prison smoking culture | Smoke-free ‘rights’ and freedom to smoke | SHS and health | Anticipated unrest and violence re smoke-free prisons | |||
| Prison staff and a smoke-free workplace | Prisoners (usually associated with legal cases) | Prison staff health | Prisoner health | Health impacts of SHS | ||||
| Newspaper | ||||||||
| ‘Popular tabloid’ | 32 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| The Sun | 17 | 12 | – | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Daily Mirror | 10 | 6 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 6 |
| Daily Star of Scotland | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| The People | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Daily Record (Scottish national) | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| ‘Middle-market tabloid’ | 11 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Scottish Daily Express | 7 | 7 | – | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Scottish Daily Mail | 4 | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 |
| ‘Serious’ newspaper | 42 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 23 |
| Guardian | 16 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| Times | 10 | 3 | – | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Daily Telegraph | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 4 |
| Herald (Scottish national) | 4 | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 |
| Sunday Times | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Observer (Sunday paper) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 2 |
| Scotsman (Scottish national) | 2 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| Scottish local | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Evening Times (Glasgow) | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | |
| Aberdeen Press & Journal | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Carrick Gazette | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Edinburgh Evening News | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Broadcast | ||||||||
| TV | 11 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| BBC News 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | – | 5 |
| SKY News | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| BBC 1 Scotland | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Radio | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| BBC Radio 4 | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 |
| BBC Radio 5 Live | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total* | 106 | 57 | 7 | 36 | 27 | 18 | 11 | 55 |
*Total articles not equivalent to total ‘mentions’ since some covered more than one theme.
SHS, secondhand smoke.