Table 7.

Percentage of adults ≥15 years old who believed that smoking/breathing other people’s smoke causes serious illness, by place of residence and gender, GATS Brazil, 2008.

Adults who...			Brazil		Place of residence
					Urban		Rural
			%	[95% Confidence Interval]	%	[95% Confidence Interval]	%	[95% Confidence Interval]
Overall
	...believed that smoking could cause
		serious illnesses	96.1	[95.7–96.4]	96.4	[96.1–96.7]	94.2	[93.2–95.2]
		stroke	73.1	[72.3–73.9]	73.9	[73.1–74.6]	68.6	[66.2–70.9]
		heart attack	85.6	[85.1–86.2]	86.4	[85.8–87.0]	81.3	[79.5–83.1]
		lung cancer	94.7	[94.3–95.1]	95.2	[94.8–95.5]	92.1	[91.0–93.1]
	...believed that breathing other people’s smoke could cause serious illnesses in non-smokers		91.4	[90.9–91.8]	92.1	[91.6–92.5]	87.4	[85.7–88.9]
Male
	... believed that smoking could cause
		serious illnesses	95.9	[95.4–96.3]	96.2	[95.8–96.6]	94.0	[92.7–95.1]
		stroke	74.3	[73.3–75.2]	75.3	[74.3–76.2]	69.4	[66.6–72.0]
		heart attack	85.7	[84.9–86.4]	86.6	[85.8–87.4]	81.0	[78.7–83.2]
		lung cancer	94.5	[94.0–94.9]	95.0	[94.5–95.4]	92.0	[90.5–93.2]
	... believed that breathing other people’s smoke could cause serious illnesses in non-smokers		90.8	[90.2–91.4]	91.6	[90.9–92.1]	86.9	[85.1–88.6]
Female
	... believed that smoking could cause
		serious illnesses	96.3	[95.9–96.7]	96.6	[96.2–97.0]	94.5	[93.1–95.6]
		stroke	72.0	[71.1–73.0]	72.7	[71.8–73.6]	67.8	[64.8–70.6]
		heart attack	85.6	[84.9–86.3]	86.2	[85.5–86.9]	81.7	[79.5–83.7]
		lung cancer	94.9	[94.5–95.4]	95.3	[94.9–95.8]	92.3	[90.7–93.6]
	... believed that breathing other people’s smoke could cause serious illnesses in non-smokers		91.9	[91.3–92.5]	92.5	[92.0–93.1]	87.9	[85.7–89.7]