Child awareness of and access to cigarettes: impacts of the point-of-sale display ban in England

Introduction England introduced a tobacco display ban for shops with >280 m 2 floor area (‘partial ban’) in 2012, then a total ban in 2015. This study assessed whether these were linked to child awareness of and access to cigarettes. Methods Data come from the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use survey, an annual survey of children aged 11–15 years for 2010–2014 and 2016. Multivariate logistic regression models assessed changes in having seen...