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

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Table 4 The perceived impact on the decision to quit smoking 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	27.0	28.6	81.3	80.7	81.0	82.6	0.624	< 0.001
	Female	502	26.7	33.7	91.6	91.6	93.0	93.2	0.016	< 0.001
Age group	20-	338	33.1	33.7	88.8	87.6	89.1	89.1	0.870	< 0.001
	30-	293	20.5	26.6	88.4	87.7	88.4	90.4	0.080	< 0.001
	40 and above	245	25.7	34.3	83.7	85.3	85.7	86.1	0.038	< 0.001
Education level*	Low	151	28.5	34.4	86.1	84.8	84.8	85.4	0.265	< 0.001
	Medium	133	24.8	30.1	88.0	84.2	90.2	91.0	0.336	< 0.001
	High	590	26.8	31.0	87.3	88.1	88.1	89.0	0.108	< 0.001
Smoking status	Current smoker	162	24.7	25.9	76.5	75.9	74.7	79.0	0.798	< 0.001
	Former smoker	46	28.3	26.1	84.8	80.4	80.4	78.3	0.115	< 0.001
	Never smoker	668	13.0	33.2	90.0	90.1	91.6	91.8	0.050	< 0.001
Total		876	26.8	31.5	87.2	87.0	87.9	88.7	0.031	< 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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