BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1515633
Tobacco endgame policies: An analysis of preferred strategies and support levels in a sample from Qatar
Provisionally accepted
Aisha Al-NaimiKhadiga ElsayedMarwa AlharoonFatma Al-ObaidliHissa AlmuraikhiAmaal Osman
Reem Alrashdi
Mujahed Shraim
Mohammed Al-Hamdani*- Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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Background: There is limited evidence on preferences for tobacco endgame policies and support levels for them in the Middle East. Further, no studies on the interactive association of sex and tobacco use status with support levels exist to date. Objectives: To examine preferred tobacco endgame strategies and levels of support in a Qatari sample. Methods: A convenience sample of adults (N=372; 73.3% females) completed a cross sectional survey. Preferences for strategies were assessed by demographic variables using chi-square tests and levels of support were compared by sex and tobacco use status while adjusting for other factors using bootstrapped regression. Results: Males and current tobacco users prefer standardized packages, females prefer nicotine reduction policies, and never tobacco users prefer tax increases, import bans, bans for minors and adults, and flavour bans. Never and past tobacco users reported higher tobacco endgame support relative to current tobacco users. Further, males who never used tobacco or used it in the past reported higher tobacco endgame support than male current users. Conclusions: High tobacco endgame support level and preferences for a wide range of tobacco endgame policies might be promising indicators for embracing them, especially among never tobacco users and males that do not currently use tobacco in Qatar.
Keywords: Tobacco endgame, Tobacco Control, policy support, tobacco use status, policy preferences
Received: 23 Oct 2024; Accepted: 15 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Al-Naimi, Elsayed, Alharoon, Al-Obaidli, Almuraikhi, Osman, Alrashdi, Shraim and Al-Hamdani. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Mohammed Al-Hamdani, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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