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Table 2 Results of the MAToC on a population of 142 subjects from 14 different EU-member states

From: Measuring activities in tobacco control across the EU. The MAToC

country

n

Mean rank

Prevalence Adult smoking **

Tax Range: 0–1

Smuggling Range: 0–1

Prevention Range: 0–1

Product Control Range: 0–1

Smoking Cessation Range: 1–5

ETS Range: 1–5

Media Support Range: 1–5

Health care system Range: 1–5

Research Range: 1–5

Politics Range: 1–5

Population Range: 1–5

Finland

28

2.4

23%

.83

.60

.83

.87

3.58

4.40

3.31

3.98

3.00

2.94

3.58

Sweden

14

3.6

17.4% *

.43

.43

.69

.88

3.45

3.79

3.57

4.39

2.83

2.79

3.86

Ireland

6

4.3

31%

.83

.67

.72

.67

3.29

3.67

3.00

4.25

2.81

2.99

3.25

UK

24

4.8

28% *

.79

.38

.75

.85

3.78

2.68

3.13

3.57

2.87

2.62

2.89

Netherlands

14

6.3

33.2%

.36

.14

.63

.81

3.76

3.27

2.98

3.21

2.82

2.61

3.18

Italy

4

7.4

31.1% *

.25

.50

.69

.92

1.88

3.00

2.83

3.00

1.92

2.83

2.88

France

6

7.5

27%

.75

.67

.18

.78

3.50

3.33

2.94

2.83

2.11

2.35

2.67

Denmark

12

7.6

30%

.33

.42

.40

.78

3.54

2.94

2.83

3.17

2.36

1.92

2.96

Austria

6

8.7

29%

.33

.17

.78

.89

3.04

2.93

2.06

3.00

1.28

1.79

2.33

Spain

13

9.0

39.1% *

.25

.43

.65

.85

2.61

2.37

2.33

3.07

2.43

2.13

2.11

Belgium

6

9.4

28% *

.33

.17

.36

.83

2.79

3.03

2.33

3.08

1.89

1.36

2.17

Portugal

1

9.5

29.4% *

1

0

1

.67

1.25

2.00

2.00

3.00

1.67

2.33

2.50

Greece

2

10.7

46.8% *

.25

0

.21

1

2.63

2.60

1.83

3.00

1.83

1.50

1.50

Germany

6

11.5

34.5%

.33

0

.72

.83

2.33

1.90

1.72

2.00

1.47

1.38

1.83

  1. Footnote: the countries are sorted by their mean rank across the different dimensions of tobacco control activities; the range in columns 5 to 7 indicates the reference points of the dimensions: 0–1 with 0 = No and 1 = Yes; the range in columns 8 to 15 indicates the reference points 1–5 with 1 = "not all", 5 = "absolutely"; * = these figures represent male adult smoking, siince smoking rates for the general population were not available; ** = percentage smokers in the adult population, taken from the WHO-report for the European Region [1]; ETS= Protection from Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke, due to the differences in participants per country no variance measures were calculated