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Table 2 Association between political views and public support for tobacco control policies across the 28 European Union Member States in 2014 (n = 22,313)

From: Are political views related to smoking and support for tobacco control policies? A survey across 28 European countries

Political views

Advertising bans

Ban flavours

Plain packaging

Raise tobacco taxes

Tobacco out of sight

Ban online sales

Ban e-cigarettes in public places

 

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

Centre (ref.)

Far left

1.06 (0.96–1.18)

1.06 (0.96–1.17)

1.07 (0.97–1.19)

0.99 (0.89–1.10)

0.96 (0.87–1.06)

1.03 (0.93–1.14)

1.00 (0.90–1.10)

Centre left

1.10 (1.01–1.19)

1.02 (0.94–1.10)

1.01 (0.94–1.10)

1.06 (0.97–1.15)

1.11 (1.02–1.20)

0.97 (0.89–1.05)

0.97 (0.90–1.05)

Centre right

0.87 (0.79–0.94)

0.86 (0.79–0.94)

0.90 (0.83–0.98)

0.96 (0.88–1.05)

0.88 (0.81–0.96)

0.89 (0.81–0.96)

0.97 (0.89–1.05)

Far right

0.85 (0.75–0.95)

0.97 (0.87–1.09)

1.01 (0.90–1.13)

0.99 (0.88–1.11)

0.88 (0.78–0.98)

1.04 (0.92–1.16)

1.03 (0.92–1.15)

  1. Multi-level logistic regression adjusted for age, sex, education, area of residence, financial status, occupation, marital status, social class, and smoking
  2. Confidence intervals in italics indicate statistically significant results