Table 4.
Owner’s and manager’s attitudes towards banning smoking in restaurants and bars, five Chinese cities, 2007.
| total |
What kind of smoking policy do you think restaurants/bars should have?an (%) |
Willing to do sobn (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
restaurants |
bars |
|||||||
| prohibit | restrict | allow | prohibit | restrict | allow | |||
| Total | 814 | 137 (16.8) | 519 (63.7) | 106 (13.0) | 92 (11.3) | 411 (50.6) | 195 (24.0) | 433 (53.3) |
| City | ||||||||
| Beijing | 161 | 36 (22.4) | 106 (65.8) | 11 (6.8) | 26 (16.3) | 88 (55.0) | 21 (13.1) | 108 (67.9) |
| Wuhan | 172 | 26 (15.2) | 89 (52.0) | 45 (26.3) | 20 (11.7) | 67 (39.2) | 67 (39.2) | 83 (48.3) |
| Xi’an | 161 | 36 (22.4) | 100 (62.1) | 11 (6.8) | 18 (11.2) | 78 (48.4) | 32 (19.9) | 76 (47.2) |
| Kunming | 160 | 18 (11.3) | 107 (66.9) | 26 (16.3) | 11 (6.9) | 81 (50.6) | 51 (31.9) | 76 (47.5) |
| Guiyang | 160 | 21 (13.1) | 117 (73.1) | 13 (8.1) | 17 (10.6) | 97 (60.6) | 24 (15.0) | 90 (56.3) |
| Type of Establishment | ||||||||
| Chinese dining | 506 | 87 (17.2) | 312 (61.7) | 71 (14) | 63 (12.5) | 252 (49.9) | 110 (21.8) | 270 (53.6) |
| Chinese fast food | 58 | 15 (25.9) | 37 (63.8) | 4 (6.9) | 10 (17.2) | 31 (53.4) | 12 (20.7) | 32 (55.2) |
| Western dining | 52 | 3 (5.9) | 42 (82.4) | 4 (7.8) | 3 (5.9) | 29 (56.9) | 12 (23.5) | 36 (69.2) |
| Western fast food | 49 | 17 (34.7) | 28 (57.1) | 3 (6.1) | 8 (16.3) | 26 (53.1) | 11 (22.4) | 38 (77.6) |
| Bar | 149 | 15 (10.1) | 100 (67.1) | 24 (16.1) | 8 (5.4) | 73 (49.0) | 50 (33.6) | 57 (38.3) |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 413 | 64 (15.5) | 259 (62.9) | 58 (14.1) | 45 (10.9) | 204 (49.5) | 111 (26.9) | 210 (51.0) |
| Female | 399 | 73 (18.3) | 259 (64.9) | 47 (11.8) | 47 (11.8) | 206 (51.8) | 83 (20.9) | 223 (56.0) |
| Age | ||||||||
| ≤35 | 571 | 84 (14.7) | 385 (67.4) | 66 (11.6) | 59 (10.3) | 306 (53.6) | 127 (22.2) | 266 (46.7) |
| >35 | 238 | 51 (21.4) | 132 (55.5) | 40 (16.8) | 32 (13.5) | 104 (43.9) | 67 (28.3) | 111 (46.4) |
| Education | ||||||||
| ≤High school | 444 | 80 (58.4) | 274 (52.9) | 30 (16.2) | 22 (11.9) | 79 (42.7) | 58 (31.4) | 96 (51.9) |
| >High school | 367 | 57 (41.6) | 244 (47.1) | 37 (14.3) | 37 (14.3) | 134 (51.9) | 55 (21.3) | 139 (53.7) |
| Current smoking | ||||||||
| Yes | 287 | 106 (20.2) | 332 (63.2) | 62 (11.8) | 74 (14.1) | 276 (52.7) | 99 (18.9) | 125 (43.6) |
| No | 525 | 31 (10.8) | 185 (64.7) | 44 (15.4) | 18 (6.3) | 134 (46.9) | 95 (33.2) | 308 (58.9) |
| Knowledge scores | ||||||||
| 0–3 | 221 | 29 (13.1) | 132 (59.7) | 38 (17.2) | 15 (6.8) | 98 (44.3) | 60 (27.1) | 101 (45.7) |
| 4–6 | 592 | 108 (18.2) | 387 (65.4) | 68 (11.5) | 77 (13.0) | 313 (53.0) | 135 (22.8) | 332 (56.1) |
| Banning smoking would not reduce revenues | ||||||||
| Disagree/DNK c | 447 | 42 (9.4) | 295 (66.0) | 72 (16.1) | 34 (7.6) | 219 (49.0) | 121 (27.1) | 194 (43.4) |
| Agree | 365 | 95 (26.0) | 223 (61.1) | 34 (9.3) | 58 (15.9) | 191 (52.5) | 74 (20.3) | 238 (65.6) |
Note: results in presented in this table represent simple aggregation of the survey results, and no sampling weighting was used.
a
Answers to this question included “prohibit”, “restrict” “allow” and “ I don’t care”; only the first three options are presented in this table;
b
The question was that “Are you willing to prohibit or restrict smoking in your own restaurant or bar?” Answers to this question included “yes”, “no” and “refuse to answer”; only results of the first option are presented in this table;
c
Disagree or don’t know.