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

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Table 3 The perceived impact of not giving cigarette as a gift by gender, age groups, education levels and smoking status

		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	18.4	21.7	80.5	80.5	79.1	81.0	0.273	< 0.001
	Female	502	22.5	27.9	90.2	90.2	89.0	89.6	0.05	< 0.001
Age (yrs)	20-	338	22.5	26.3	87.9	87.9	85.5	87.3	0.244	< 0.001
	30-	293	13.7	19.8	90.1	90.1	89.4	89.8	0.046	< 0.001
	40 and above	245	26.9	30.2	78.8	78.8	78.4	79.6	0.424	< 0.001
Education level	Low	151	23.2	29.8	76.8	76.8	75.5	75.5	0.192	< 0.001
	Medium	133	22.6	24.8	89.5	89.5	85.0	86.5	0.665	< 0.001
	High	590	19.7	24.1	87.6	87.6	87.1	88.5	0.067	< 0.001
Smoking status	Current smoker	162	17.3	21.0	79.6	79.6	75.3	77.8	0.397	< 0.001
	Former smoker	46	22.0	19.6	71.7	71.7	71.7	73.9	0.582	< 0.001
	Non-smoker	668	15.2	26.6	88.6	88.6	88.0	88.8	0.048	< 0.001
Total		876	20.8	25.2	86.1	86.1	84.8	86.0	0.027	< 0.001

*low, medium and high education refers to high school and below, technical secondary school, college and above, respectively.
^†By chi-square test.
^‡Combination of labels C-F (positive answer to all labels were regarded as positive).

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