Table 2.
Information seeking and media consumption by smoking status
| Smoking status | |||
| Information seeking and media consumption | Light daily smoker | Intermittent smoker | Moderate to heavy daily smoker |
| Cancer information seeking (%) | |||
| Yes | 41.7 | 42.0 | 44.4 |
| No | 58.3 | 58.0 | 55.6 |
| p = .3658 | p = .4870 | ||
| Health/cancer information seeking on Internet (%) | |||
| Yes | 42.8 | 46.7 | 38.4 |
| No | 57.2 | 53.4 | 61.6 |
| p = .1833 | p = .0386 | ||
| Trust cancer information from doctor (%) | |||
| Yes | 60.5 | 65.3 | 53.7 |
| No | 39.5 | 34.7 | 46.3 |
| p = .0499 | p = .0015 | ||
| Trust cancer information from family (%) | |||
| Yes | 21.6 | 23.2 | 23.2 |
| No | 78.4 | 76.8 | 76.8 |
| p = .5857 | p = .9999 | ||
| Trust cancer information from newspaper (%) | |||
| Yes | 11.5 | 19.5 | 14.9 |
| No | 88.5 | 80.6 | 85.1 |
| p = .1909 | p = .1476 | ||
| Trust cancer information from magazine (%) | |||
| Yes | 17.8 | 18.1 | 16.4 |
| No | 82.2 | 81.9 | 83.7 |
| p = .6401 | p = .5481 | ||
| Trust cancer information from Internet (%) | |||
| Yes | 24.2 | 27.5 | 24.2 |
| No | 75.8 | 72.5 | 75.8 |
| p = .9999 | p = .2538 | ||
| Trust cancer information from television (%) | |||
| Yes | 22.4 | 26.2 | 23.8 |
| No | 77.6 | 73.8 | 76.2 |
| p = .6184 | p = .4452 | ||
| Mean hours per weekday watching television | 3.41 | 3.29 | 3.76 |
| p = .0767 | p = .0155 | ||
| Mean hours per weekday listening to radio | 2.69 | 2.80 | 3.05 |
| p = .0855 | p = .2686 | ||
| Mean days per week reading newspaper | 3.03 | 3.15 | 2.95 |
| p = .6347 | p = .3509 | ||
Note. The p values resulting from cross-tabulation with chi square for light daily versus moderate to heavy daily and for intermittent versus moderate to heavy daily.