Table 6.
Awareness of smoking images in entertainment media and attitudes towards the tobacco industry among smokers (n=4763), by city
| Total (n=4763), % | Beijing (n=793), % | Shenyang (n=789), % | Shanghai (n=792), % | Changsha (n=801), % | Guangzhou (n=795), % | Yinchuan (n=793), % | |
| See people smoking in the entertainment media | |||||||
| Once in a while | 27.9 | 27.9 | 23.1 | 26.0 | 33.9 | 34.7 | 21.7 |
| Often | 51.5 | 53.1 | 53.2 | 50.6 | 48.1 | 41.5 | 62.4 |
| Tobacco companies do good things for the Chinese society (agree+strongly agree) | 50.3 | 58.1 | 55.1 | 52.1 | 46.1 | 38.6 | 51.6 |
Group differences for all the individual variables of interest were significant at p<0.001 level based on the Pearson χ2 test.