Distribution of supporting and opposing arguments, actors and tobacco control measures in relation to the PP 109/2012 amendment in news articles, 2016–2023
| Total | Supportive | Opposed | ||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Argument type | n=2681 | n=1448 | n=1413 | |||
| Smoking trend and initiation | 331 | 11.6 | 306 | 21.1 | 25 | 1.8 |
| E-cigarette use in the population | 50 | 1.7 | 50 | 3.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Health and safety implications | 294 | 10.3 | 240 | 16.6 | 54 | 3.8 |
| Protect the population | 136 | 4.8 | 133 | 9.2 | 3 | 0.2 |
| TAPS/smoking exposure | 102 | 3.6 | 101 | 7.0 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Accessibility and affordability of tobacco products | 38 | 1.3 | 37 | 2.6 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Tobacco industry interference | 17 | 0.6 | 9 | 0.6 | 8 | 0.6 |
| Science-based | 174 | 6.1 | 139 | 9.6 | 35 | 2.5 |
| COVID-19 pandemic recovery | 64 | 2.2 | 10 | 0.7 | 54 | 3.8 |
| Country exemplary | 78 | 2.7 | 60 | 4.1 | 18 | 1.3 |
| Economic impacts | 98 | 3.4 | 48 | 3.3 | 50 | 3.5 |
| Impact on the industry | 232 | 8.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 232 | 16.4 |
| Tobacco farmers/workers welfare | 253 | 8.8 | 18 | 1.2 | 235 | 16.6 |
| Regulatory drafting process | 111 | 3.9 | 3 | 0.2 | 108 | 7.6 |
| Vested/foreign interest | 101 | 3.5 | 4 | 0.3 | 97 | 6.9 |
| Amended regulation will not be effective | 46 | 1.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 46 | 3.3 |
| Illicit trade | 30 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 30 | 2.1 |
| Industry’s economic/social contribution | 138 | 4.8 | 4 | 0.3 | 134 | 9.5 |
| Other national/subnational agenda | 120 | 4.2 | 103 | 7.1 | 17 | 1.2 |
| The current regulation is not sufficient | 130 | 4.5 | 130 | 9.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| The current regulation is sufficient | 155 | 5.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 155 | 11.0 |
| Other | 163 | 5.9 | 53 | 3.6 | 110 | 7.7 |
| Actors | n=2119 | n=858 | n=1261 | |||
| Civil society organisations (CSO) | 652 | 30.8 | 349 | 40.7 | 303 | 24.0 |
| Scholars/experts | 177 | 8.4 | 57 | 6.6 | 120 | 9.5 |
| Health professionals | 177 | 8.4 | 176 | 20.5 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Government | 452 | 21.3 | 241 | 28.1 | 211 | 16.7 |
| Farmers | 33 | 1.6 | 2 | 0.2 | 31 | 2.5 |
| Retailers | 9 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 0.7 |
| E-cigarette consumers | 72 | 3.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 72 | 5.7 |
| Tobacco industry | 253 | 11.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 253 | 20.1 |
| Industry front groups | 227 | 10.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 227 | 18.0 |
| Other | 67 | 3.2 | 33 | 3.8 | 34 | 2.7 |
| Tobacco control measures | n=293 | n=234 | n=59 | |||
| Tax/price | 11 | 3.8 | 10 | 4.3 | 1 | 1.7 |
| Smoking cessation service | 3 | 1.0 | 3 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Tobacco advertisement, promotion, sponsorship (TAPS) | 70 | 23.9 | 55 | 23.5 | 15 | 25.4 |
| Health warning label (HWL) | 73 | 24.9 | 53 | 22.6 | 20 | 33.9 |
| E-cigarette/HTP regulation | 85 | 29.0 | 79 | 33.8 | 6 | 10.2 |
| Institutional capacity | 2 | 0.7 | 2 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Cigarette sale | 28 | 9.6 | 16 | 6.8 | 12 | 20.3 |
| Cigarette additives | 6 | 2.0 | 3 | 1.3 | 3 | 5.1 |
| Smoke-free area | 8 | 2.7 | 7 | 3.0 | 1 | 1.7 |
| Other | 7 | 2.4 | 6 | 2.6 | 1 | 1.7 |