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Ethiopia has enacted comprehensive tobacco control laws, including bans on TAPS at PoS. However, little is known about how these laws are implemented, monitored, and enforced in practice. This study explored the facilitators and barriers to implementing, monitoring compliance with, and enforcing TAPS laws at PoS in Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Qualitative interviews with 41 key informants were conducted between December 2022 and January 2023 across 10 purposively selected cities. Participants included policy implementers and stakeholders from government agencies, civil society organizations (CSOs), and international partners. Participants were purposively selected from national and sub-national actors involved in tobacco control, including government agencies (MoH, EFDA, Ministry of Trade, regional health and trade authorities, regulatory bodies, and research institutions) and non-governmental stakeholders (WHO Ethiopia, professional associations, and CSOs). Semi-structured interview guides were developed and administered in local languages. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, translated into English, and analyzed thematically using ATLAS.ti software.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Key facilitators included strong tobacco control laws (Proclamation No. 1112\/2019), federal-level political commitment, and the national tobacco control committee (NTCC). Barriers included the absence of EFDA structures at lower administrative levels, a lack of regionally adapted tobacco control laws, limited dedicated tobacco control departments, unclear enforcement mandates, advertisement of illicit tobacco products, not being a prioritized agenda, low awareness among non-health departments and retailers, tobacco industry interference, and, in some areas, a culture that normalizes tobacco smoking.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Strong legislation banning 100% of TAPS and the presence of a national tobacco control committee support implementation; however, enforcement remains limited by structural, operational, and socio-cultural challenges. Enhancing compliance requires strengthening regional regulations, establishing clear institutional frameworks, raising stakeholder awareness about the tactics of the tobacco industry, and ensuring adequate allocation of human and financial resources, particularly in regions with a high prevalence of illicit tobacco products, to achieve the intended public health impact of TAPS laws in Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0354842","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,31]],"date-time":"2026-07-31T17:21:44Z","timestamp":1785518504000},"page":"e0354842","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Implementation, enforcement, and monitoring of tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) laws in Ethiopia: Insights from a qualitative study"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3045-0400","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Selamawit","family":"Hirpa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3189-3473","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Noreen Dadirai","family":"Mdege","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7591-9669","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Terefe Gelibo","family":"Argefa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Selam Abraham","family":"Kassa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wakgari","family":"Deressa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,31]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0354842.ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1186\/s12916-025-03883-9","article-title":"Relationship of tobacco smoking to cause-specific mortality: Contemporary estimates from Australia","volume":"23","author":"G Joshy","year":"2025","journal-title":"BMC Med"},{"key":"pone.0354842.ref002","first-page":"117","article-title":"The vector of the tobacco epidemic: Tobacco industry practices in low and middle-income countries","author":"S Lee","year":"2012","journal-title":"Cancer Causes Control"},{"issue":"9972","key":"pone.0354842.ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1029","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(15)60312-9","article-title":"Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries","volume":"385","author":"AB Gilmore","year":"2015","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"issue":"5","key":"pone.0354842.ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"645","DOI":"10.1136\/tobaccocontrol-2021-057095","article-title":"Spinning a global web: Tactics used by Big Tobacco to attract children at tobacco points-of-sale","volume":"32","author":"JL Brown","year":"2023","journal-title":"Tob Control"},{"key":"pone.0354842.ref005","unstructured":"Japan Tobacco International. 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