Essential Report

Government Regulation

Apr 30, 2012

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of Governments making laws to regulate the following?

	Total approve	Total disapprove	Strongly approve	Approve	Disapprove	Strongly disapprove	Don’t know
Wearing seatbelts in cars	97%	2%	74%	23%	2%	*	1%
Wearing bike helmets	94%	6%	65%	29%	5%	1%	1%
Personal use of recreational drugs	59%	34%	32%	27%	19%	15%	7%
Smoking in public places	67%	30%	40%	27%	16%	14%	3%
Buying and consuming alcohol	69%	26%	26%	43%	19%	7%	5%
Shopping hours	56%	38%	16%	40%	28%	10%	6%
Cigarette packaging	64%	29%	35%	29%	16%	13%	6%
Junk food advertising	66%	28%	29%	37%	19%	9%	6%
Films (i.e. censorship)	62%	31%	20%	42%	20%	11%	7%
The internet	49%	43%	19%	30%	23%	20%	8%

For each of the areas listed above (except for ‘the internet’) more than half of respondents approve of Governments making laws to regulate the area.

The highest levels of approval were for ‘wearing seatbelts in cars’ (97% approve) and ‘wearing bike helmets’ (94% approve).

The highest levels of disapproval were for ‘the internet’ (43% disapprove) and ‘shopping hours’ (38% disapprove).

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