Tobacco sales in pharmacies: time to quit

Objective: To assess the pharmacy profession’s perceptions of tobacco sales in US pharmacies and explore whether a policy prohibiting sales of tobacco in pharmacies would alter adult consumer shopping behaviour. Subjects and design: In California, surveys were administered to 1168 licensed pharmacis...

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Published in:Tobacco control 2006-02, Vol.15 (1), p.35-38
Main Authors: Hudmon, K Suchanek, Fenlon, C M, Corelli, R L, Prokhorov, A V, Schroeder, S A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Attitude of Health Personnel
Attitude to Health
California
Cigarette smoking
Cigarettes
Commerce - methods
Consumers
Drug stores
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
Female
Humans
Licenses
Male
Middle Aged
Nicotiana
Pacific Islander people
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Pharmacists - psychology
Population Surveillance - methods
Professional relationships
Professions
Public health
Questionnaires
Research Paper
Retail stores
Sales
Smoking
Smoking - psychology
Smoking cessation
Social Behavior
Sociodemographics
Student surveys
Students
Students, Pharmacy - psychology
Studies
Tobacco
Tobacco products
Tobacco use
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Summary:Objective: To assess the pharmacy profession’s perceptions of tobacco sales in US pharmacies and explore whether a policy prohibiting sales of tobacco in pharmacies would alter adult consumer shopping behaviour. Subjects and design: In California, surveys were administered to 1168 licensed pharmacists and 1518 pharmacy students, and telephone interviews were conducted with 988 adult consumers. Results: Most (58.1%) licensed pharmacists were strongly against sales of tobacco in pharmacies, 23.6% were against it, 16.7% were neutral, 1.2% were in favour of it, and 0.4% were strongly in favour of it. Pharmacists who were current tobacco users were more likely to be in favour of tobacco sales in pharmacies than were pharmacists who were current non-users (p < 0.005). Similar statistics were observed for pharmacy students. Most consumers (72.3%) disagreed with the statement, “I am in favour of tobacco products being sold in drugstores”; 82.6% stated that if the drugstore where they most commonly shopped were to stop selling tobacco products, they would shop there just as often, 14.2% would shop there more often, and 3.2% would shop there less often. Conclusion: Little professional or public support exists for tobacco sales in pharmacies.
ISSN:0964-4563
1468-3318
DOI:10.1136/tc.2005.012278