title: Support for population level tobacco control policies in Hungary.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Smoking is the leading, preventable risk factor for premature death and disability in Hungary. The objective of this paper was to assess the social acceptability of and the predictors of holding favourable attitudes toward tobacco control policies among the Hungarian population.
  
  
  METHODS
  A self-administered questionnaire-based study was carried out among individuals aged 16-70 years. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess whether support for the ten tobacco control policies varies as a function of age, sex, educational level, and smoking status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The majority of the respondents supported the studied tobacco control measures. Over 90 percent of the sample supported: fines for retailers selling tobacco products to minors (92.3%), stricter enforcement of restrictions on selling tobacco products to minors (90.5%), and a ban on smoking in health care institutions (91.4%). The lowest levels of support were for bans on sponsorship by the tobacco industry (52.8%) and price increases on tobacco products (54.9%). For each measure, support was significantly lower among smokers than non-smokers. Age and education were significantly related to support for some but not all measures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Strong majorities of Hungarians support the enactment and enforcement of a wide range of tobacco control measures, a fact that was acknowledged by Parliament's passage of the 2011 Anti-Smoking Law. Advocacy efforts to encourage the acceptance of tobacco control policies should focus not only on smokers, but also on younger and less educated non-smokers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary. paulik.edit@med.u-szeged.hu
authors.forename: Edit
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paulik
authors.forename: Agnes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maróti-Nagy
authors.forename: László
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nagymajtényi
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Doug
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Easterling
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D055815:Young Adult