Flash Eurobarometer 253 (Survey on tobacco)

Smoking habits.<br>Topics: smoking status; consumption frequency of oral tobacco; smoking situation inside the respondent’s house; duration of tobacco exposure at the workplace (passive smoking); smoking restrictions at workplace; attitude towards smoking bans in: restaurants, bars and clubs, offices and other indoor workplaces; assessment of the effectiveness of health messages on tobacco packs with regard to: informing about health effects of tobacco, persuading not to start smoking or to quit smoking; assessment of the effectiveness of adding colour pictures to text-only health warnings on tobacco packs; frequency of purchase of tobacco products via the internet; awareness of smuggled tobacco products in the last six months; number of packs and cartons of cigarettes brought from a trip in the EU in the last twelve months.

Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; interviewer ID; language of the interview; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; type of phone line; region; weighting factor.