Subnational Tobacco Advertising Bans by WHO

Subnational laws or regulations banning some or all types of tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship. The dataset is compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of its Global Health Observatory. It provides a structured view of legal measures at subnational levels.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between subnational ban status and geographic region to map policy adoption.
• Track temporal changes in subnational regulation status over time to measure policy diffusion.
• Compare subnational legal measures against national-level tobacco control laws for compliance studies.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative World Health Organization (WHO).
• Covers subnational legal measures, providing finer geographic detail than national-only data.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Data may be incomplete for certain countries or subnational regions.

Provenance

Source

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection Method

Compilation of reported legal and regulatory measures from member states.

Geography

Global, subnational level