D.Phil. / The aim of this study was to explore the psychosocial factors which impact on smoking behaviour and to consider the impact of these factors on the formulation of national policy, as well as business and management practices around the marketing and promotion of tobacco products. An analytic induction approach was followed in analysing the data of multiple cases. Interviews and observations were used to gather in-depth information on nine participants (smokers, ex-smokers, social smokers and non-smokers). The data was subjected to analytic induction in order to build a typology of smoking behaviour. This theoretical tool was compared to current knowledge and culminated in a model of psychosocial factors that influence smoking behaviour, which was tested against a further four cases. No negative cases were found. The outcome of this study suggests that promoters of tobacco products should follow a more focused approach towards dark marketing. It also highlights that government and other anti-smoking agencies are not always effective in reducing smoking and counteracting covert marketing practices. The study also illustrated that analytic induction can be applied successfully in consumer behaviour studies. Finally, it contributed to local knowledge of qualitative research, as analytic induction has not been applied fully in a local study before.

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between alcohol advertising and alcohol consumption among the youth in the Vaal triangle, south of Gauteng. The study was conducted in four high schools under Sedibeng West District of the Gauteng Department of Education. A quantitative approach in the form of a questionnaire was used to conduct the research. Results obtained indicated that there is no significant correlation between alcohol advertising and alcohol consumption among the respondents. Drawing on the findings and literature review, recommendations were made to government, the liquor industry and schools that participated in the study. Limitations of the study were identified and recommendations were made for the benefit of future research. The primary and secondary objectives of the study were successfully realised in this study. / MBA, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between alcohol advertising and alcohol consumption among the youth in the Vaal triangle, south of Gauteng. The study was conducted in four high schools under Sedibeng West District of the Gauteng Department of Education. A quantitative approach in the form of a questionnaire was used to conduct the research. Results obtained indicated that there is no significant correlation between alcohol advertising and alcohol consumption among the respondents. Drawing on the findings and literature review, recommendations were made to government, the liquor industry and schools that participated in the study. Limitations of the study were identified and recommendations were made for the benefit of future research. The primary and secondary objectives of the study were successfully realised in this study. / MBA, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

菸品廣告規範之研究 中文摘要 就傳播法的角度而言，廣告規範可以說是傳播活動中涉及法律層面最廣，也是最為複雜的議題之一；而「菸品」廣告的存在由於具有相當的爭議性，因此亦稱得上是廣告規範中極具代表性的議題。本論文以菸品廣告規範為中心，藉由此項議題探討的「點」，試圖找出廣告規範的脈絡，進一步勾勒出廣告規範體系的「面」。故本論文處理菸品廣告所牽涉的法律層次，從抽象的國際公約及憲法，到具體的法律、法規命令及行政規則等均包含其中。 論文的架構大致將實務上已發生的菸品廣告案例類型化並釐清問題意識，以我國對菸品廣告規範的法理基礎、實務操作等「在地思考」的探討為「經」；加以對國際規範、外國立法例及實務操作等「國際觀點」的掌握為「緯」，完成本項議題的研究。 研究發現，我國現行菸品廣告規範面臨最大的問題在於菸品間接廣告問題、雜誌廣告規範的漏洞，以及法條競合所引發的適用問題。解決這些問題除了可以藉由國內司法體系的運作外，研究結果顯示修正相關法律規定會是解決問題最好的方式。本論文透過對世界衛生組織制定的全球菸草控制架構公約，以及對歐盟、英國、芬蘭、挪威、美國、加拿大、新加坡、泰國、南韓、日本、澳大利亞、紐西蘭等國家有關菸品廣告規範內容作一整理與分析後，提出全面禁止菸品廣告的規範方式不但不會違背我國憲法對人民基本權利的保護，更是符合未來國際趨勢的見解；而此亦與世界銀行公布的《遏止菸草流行─政府與菸草控制經濟學》報告中，指陳全面禁止菸品廣告為減少菸草需求的非價格措施最佳方式有異曲同工之處。 本論文最後針對現行菸品廣告規範主要的具體法律條文，即菸害防制法第九條及第十條提出修法建議；同時為求執法實務與立法目的一致性，文末並提出執法與實務稽查等多項建議提供我國政府相關單位參考，使本論文確實達到理論與實務的充分結合。 / A Study on the Regulation of Tobacco Advertising Abstract There is no doubt that in the area of communications law the regulation of advertising is one of the most complicated and widespread issues. Among them, tobacco advertising is perhaps the most controversial topic. This dissertation focuses on the regulation of tobacco advertising in Taiwan. This dissertation finds that, in recent years, tobacco companies spent huge sum of money in advertising, resulting in an increase in tobacco consumption. Although according to the Tobacco Hazards Control Law of Taiwan, tobacco advertising is strictly restricted; the phenomenon is that tobacco companies tend to use legal loopholes. This dissertation analyzes the situation and discusses legal problems involved in tobacco advertising. Several issues are emphasized. First is the problem of tobacco indirect advertising. By indirect advertising is meant tobacco company advertises a third product the purpose of which is, however, to promote tobacco products. Secondly, the issue of tobacco advertising in magazines is discussed. The law of Taiwan, due to the 1986 U.S.-Taiwan Trade Agreement, allows a certain amount of tobacco advertising in magazines. Nevertheless, the law does not take into consideration certain circumstances, thereby causing loopholes during enforcement. Last but not least, focus is placed on the application of Tobacco Hazard Control Law. Specifically, the problem of concurrent application -- a unique but not uncommon legal issue in Taiwan’s legal system -- is analyzed. Methodologically, this dissertation adopts the comparative law approach. By examining WHO’s FCTC (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) and comparing the laws of Taiwan with that of the international convention, the laws of European Union, United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, United States, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, the author concludes that a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising is constitutionally sound and compatible with international trend. Lastly, this dissertation tries to provide solutions to Taiwan’s present legislative and enforcement works. In sum, some of the laws need to be amended; while enforcement works may be improved by introducing a systematic change.

The social norms concept provides a fresh basis for thinking about how public health policies and campaigns impact health behaviour. Social norms offer much promise to the field of public health, nonetheless, the potential role of norms in changing health behaviour have not been fully embraced. This thesis demonstrates that one of the mechanisms by which national level policies (e.g. tobacco control) can promote health behaviour change, such as an increase in quit intentions, is by making smoking less normative and an undesirable behaviour. This study is vital as it provides a broad conceptualization of tobacco denormalisation and shows how its reasoning is able to influence normative beliefs and smoking behaviour. A review of literature was carried out to establish the generic origins of denormalisation as well as demonstrate that this approach (i.e. social norms) has been widely adopted in schools and college settings to influence health behaviour. As a broader perspective of this thinking was imperative to address public health issues at a societal level, tobacco control was employed to investigate how individual polices influence behaviour and normative beliefs. The research methodology used was pluralistic in nature, given that the majority of past tobacco control policy studies employed either quantitative or qualitative methods. Thus adopting both methods a richer amount of data would be obtained in order to generate an improved understanding of how public policy affects norms and smoking behaviour. To empirically examine the relationship between public policy, social norms and smoking behaviour a broad conceptualization was developed to investigate the normative pathways between national level tobacco policy effects on youth and adults’ smoking behaviour. Quantitative results from the longitudinal study, the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Scotland/UK survey, indicate that a comprehensive smoke-free law that covers, without exception, an entire nation (i.e. Scotland) has increased adult smokers’ perceived social unacceptability of smoking, to some extent higher in Scotland than rest of the UK which, in turn, is associated with quit intentions at follow-up, in both countries. The examination of data from the UK Youth Tobacco Policy Study (YTPS) also demonstrated that the influence of tobacco marketing awareness on adolescents’ smoking intentions is mediated by perceived norms. Prior to the enactment of the UK Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act (TAPA), higher levels of awareness of tobacco advertising and promotion were independently associated with higher levels of perceived sibling approval which, in turn, were positively related to smoking intentions. Independent paths from perceived smoking prevalence and benefits fully mediated the effects of advertising and promotion awareness on intentions, during and after the enactment of the TAPA. Results from the qualitative study generally supported the quantitative findings and provided new insights into how adolescents’ normative beliefs and smoking behaviour are influenced by tobacco control policies. The qualitative group discussion suggests that smoke-free legislation and anti-smoking ads influence perceptions of prevalence, acceptability and smoking behaviour. A number of theoretical implications were presented, including the belief that social norms campaigns and interventions must be focal and salient in individuals’ consciousness so as to effect the desired behaviour change. A theoretical framework of the various normative mechanisms should consequently be integrated into tobacco control policies and norm-based interventions to work in a synergistic manner to influence health-related behaviour. Practical implications of this conceptualization include the view that, instead of public health interventions focusing on conventional approaches (for example, scare tactics), an appropriate strategy would be to incorporate specific information that corrects normative misperceptions and ambiguities among referent populations at individual and societal levels, with consequential normative and health behaviour change. It is recommended that future research employing tobacco industry perceptions and possibly a descriptive norm as additional normative mediators, aside from unacceptability, would be of value to examine whether smoke-free legislation influences quitting partly via changing favourable tobacco industry perceptions, social acceptability of smoking and perceived prevalence of smoking. To sum up, the findings demonstrate that societal level policy measures such as smoke-free legislation and the TAPA are critical elements of a comprehensive tobacco control program that can significantly influence adult smokers’ quit intentions and reduce adolescents’ smoking intentions respectively, by signifying smoking to be less normative and to be socially unacceptable.

Smoking and tobacco industry is one of the most regulated area in majority of world's countries. It's because of government's effort to reduce the smoking prevalence and to protect the public health. But each individual is responsible for his own health, not the state. One of the most frequent measure taken in the fight against smoking is Tobacco advertising ban. However proportion of smokers in population hasn't decreased when the law came into force in Czech republic. It emerges from a variety of surveys that there's not a signifiicant relation between an advertising and consumption of tobacco products. Another measure is the health warnings on tobacco products, which doesn't influence the quantity of smokers at all. Entire smoking ban in privately owned public places harms the proprietary rights. An increasing of excise duty leads to increase in price of cigarettes and thus motivates consumers to go over to cheap cigarettes or smoking tobacco. At the same time the black market grows. The only impact of regulation is relative decrease of tax revenues as well as products' quality, and the rise in the criminality connected with the tax evasion and the cigarettes' black market.