Commercial literature review January 2015 to December 2017
| Source | Search terms (depends on search procedure of website) | Articles/reports found | Articles/reports included in final analysis |
| Retailer magazines | |||
| Convenience and independents | |||
| Betterretailing.com: Retail Newsagent Retail Express | ‘tobacco’ | 350 | 181 |
| TalkingRetail.com | ‘tobacco’ | 54 | 49 |
| Wholesalers and FMCG | |||
| Wholesale News | ‘tobacco’ or ‘cigarette’ or ‘ryo’ or ‘roll +your+own’ or ‘hand+rolled’ or ‘cigar’ or ‘cigarillo’ | 144 | 30 |
| The Grocer | ‘tobacco’ or ‘cigarette’ or ‘ryo’ or ‘roll+your+own’ or ‘hand +rolled’ or ‘cigar’ or ‘cigarillo’ | 820 | 104 |
| Industry analyst | |||
| Euromonitor Passport | ‘tobacco’ | 20 | |
| Tobacco company | |||
| Annual reports from the big four tTTCs: JTI, IMT, BAT and PMI | 12 | 12 | |
| Total | 1380 | 396 |
BAT, British American Tobacco; IMT, Imperial Tobacco; JTI, Japan Tobacco International; PMI, Philip Morris International.