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Table 2 The proportion of positive responses to the harm information provided by different cigarette labels by gender, age groups, educational levels and smoking status

From: Reactions of Chinese adults to warning labels on cigarette packages: A survey in Jiangsu Province

  

n

Label A

Label B

Label C

Label D

Label E

Label F

P for Label B vs A†

P for Label B vs CDEF†‡

Gender

Male

374

18.7

31.0

88.2

89.8

88.8

88.8

< 0.001

< 0.001

 

Female

502

17.7

31.3

92.2

94.8

95.0

95.6

< 0.001

< 0.001

Age (yrs)

20-

338

16.3

32.0

90.8

94.1

93.2

93.8

< 0.001

< 0.001

 

30-

293

14.0

25.3

92.2

93.2

92.5

92.8

0.001

< 0.001

 

40 and above

245

25.7

37.1

88.2

90.2

91.0

91.0

0.006

< 0.001

Education levels*

Low

151

23.8

30.5

89.4

92.1

91.4

94.0

0.196

< 0.001

 

Medium

133

15.8

27.1

88.0

90.2

94.0

92.5

0.025

< 0.001

 

High

590

17.1

32.4

91.4

93.4

92.2

92.4

< 0.001

< 0.001

Smoking status

Current smoker

162

18.5

23.9

80.9

82.7

83.3

81.5

0.222

< 0.001

 

Former smoker

46

17.4

24.1

84.8

89.1

82.6

89.1

0.021

< 0.001

 

Non-smoker

668

18.1

33.4

93.3

95.4

95.2

95.7

< 0.001

< 0.001

Total

 

876

18.3

31.2

90.5

92.7

92.4

92.7

< 0.001

< 0.001

  1. A positive answer means participants can understand the harm information provided by the label.
  2. *low, medium and high education refers to high school and below, technical secondary school, college and above, respectively.
  3. †By chi-square test.
  4. ‡Combination of labels C-F (positive answer to all labels were regarded as positive).