Eurobarometer 43.0 (Mar-Apr 1995)

Experiences in purchasing foreign products, attitude to smoking and
opportunities for cancer check-up. Topics: registration of respondent
in election register; interest in politics; personal opinion
leadership; attitude to unification of Europe; judgement on membership
of one´s own country in the EU.

1. purchase of foreign products: manner and extent of purchase of
products as well as services from other EU countries; satisfaction with
foreign products purchased; in case of complaints: solving problems
encountered.

2. smoking habits: daily use of cigarettes; preference for light
brands of cigarettes; increased use of cigarettes after change from
normal to light brands of cigarettes; desire to quit smoking or reduce
use of cigarettes (split: in the second case the question was about
intent rather than desire); time of quitting smoking (for former
smokers); utilization of medications, hypnosis or acupuncture to quit
smoking; resumption of use of cigarettes and reasons for this;
intervals between the periods of tobacco abstinence; assumptions about
the connection of advertising as well as tobacco costs and the general
use of cigarettes; attitude to regimentation of advertising for
cigarettes and tobacco; assumed orientation of tobacco advertising on
young people; suspected relationship between use of tobacco and
advertising for products that have the same brand name as tobacco
products; attitude to absolute prohibition of direct and indirect
advertising for cigarettes and tobacco; presence of smokers at home, in
one´s circle of friends, at work and at other places; attitude to a
smoking ban in public institutions; expected observance of such a
smoking ban by smokers; preference for smoking zones or no-smoking
zones at work; attitude to an individual solution among colleagues or
for management decision; existence of smoking regulations at one´s
place of work and perceived observance of these rules; degree of
familiarity of no-smoking organizations; possible duties of such
no-smoking organizations; knowledge of actions of the EU to reduce use
of tobacco.

3. cancer: preference for national European efforts in the fight
against illnesses; opportunities to avoid cancer through corresponding
precaution; judgement on selected consumer habits as causing cancer;
assumed connection between sun-bathing and cancer; attitude to medical
check-up for women for early diagnosis of breast cancer; personal
participation in such medical check-ups; deaths due to cancer in one´s
circle of friends; knowledge about the European program to combat
cancer.

4. miscellaneous: self-classification on a left-right continuum;
religiousness; self-classification of class affiliation.