Table 3.
Smoking policy favored for public places by restaurant and bar owners, five Chinese cities, 2007.
|
Smokers (%) |
Non-smokers (%) |
All subjects (%) |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prohibit | Restrict | Total | Prohibit | Restrict | Total | Prohibit | Restrict | Total | |
| School | 84.3 | 15.0 | 99.3 | 87.6 | 11.8 | 99.4 | 86.4 | 13.0 | 99.4 |
| Public vehicle | 87.4 | 10.1 | 97.5 | 87.4 | 11.2 | 98.6 | 87.4 | 10.8 | 98.2 |
| Hospital | 69.6 | 30.4 | 100 | 74.7 | 24.8 | 99.4 | 73.3 | 26.3 | 99.6 |
| Office | 49.3 | 45.1 | 94.4 | 62.7 | 32.8 | 95.5 | 58.1 | 36.9 | 95.0 |
| Restaurant | 10.8 | 64.7 | 75.5 | 20.2 | 63.2 | 83.4 | 16.8 | 63.8 | 80.6 |
| Bar | 6.3 | 46.9 | 53.2 | 14.1 | 52.7 | 66.8 | 11.4 | 50.3 | 61.7 |
Notes: In mainland China, smoking is nationally prohibited in public vehicles, and classrooms, activity rooms and dorms for minors and smoking is usually restricted in some areas of hospitals. By the time of this study, smoking in offices and restaurants and bars is not regulated in the five cities; Results presented in this table represent simple aggregation of the survey results, and no sampling weighting was used.