After viewing the ad, coders judged whether the information presented was: about health consequences
(i.e. providing health arguments/evidence on why
people should change their behaviour); supportive/
encouraging (i.e. advising how to make and/or
encouraging positive behaviour changes) or about
social norms/acceptability (i.e. promoting notion
that healthy behaviours are socially desirable or acceptable, or that unhealthy behaviours are socially
undesirable). Where an ad was deemed to focus
equally on two of these categories it was coded as
both